Re: [PATCH 8/13] KVM: vcpu execution loop

[Antonio Vargas]

On 10/23/06, Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Antonio Vargas wrote:
> >>
> >> I could do that, but I feel that's more brittle.  I might need more (or
> >> other) fields later on.  It will also cost me more  pushes on the stack
> >> (no real performance or space impact, just C64-era frugality).
> >
> > maybe thats the mindsent needed to make these virtual cpu patches
> > without eating away all the cpu power with more than needed
> > abstractions ;)
> >
>
> Unfortunately not.  Saving a cycle or two doesn't help when a vm exit
> costs thousands of cycles, and worse, kills your tlb.
>
> The key is eliminating unnecessary exits.  I have plans for massively
> optimizing the mmu virtualization, and the next AMD core will do that in
> hardware (look for a "nested page tables" sticker before you buy).

yes, when I read the nested pages description in amd docs, i wondered
that the intel had nothing like that and would go much slower... amd
has worked a lot on the mmu things (like cr3-keyed tlb on k8 systems
to avoid emptying always at switch)

> --
> Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.


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