Re: [PATCH 4/4] KVM MMU: do not intercept invlpg if 'oos_shadow'is disabled

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Fri Apr 30 2010 - 14:35:36 EST


On 04/30/2010 12:05 PM, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
If 'oos_shadow' == 0, intercepting invlpg command is really
unnecessary.

And it's good for us to compare the performance between enable 'oos_shadow'
and disable 'oos_shadow'

@@ -74,8 +74,9 @@ static int dbg = 0;
module_param(dbg, bool, 0644);
#endif

-static int oos_shadow = 1;
+int __read_mostly oos_shadow = 1;
module_param(oos_shadow, bool, 0644);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(oos_shadow);

Please rename to kvm_oos_shadow to reduce potential for conflict with other global names.

But really, this is a debug option, I don't expect people to run with oos_shadow=0, so there's not much motivation to optimize it.

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