Re: [PATCH 5/6] KVM: MMU: prefetch ptes when intercepted guest #PF

[Avi Kivity]

On 06/17/2010 12:04 PM, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> > So we can change the fault path to always fault 16 ptes, aligned on 16
> > pte boundary, with the needed pte called with specualtive=false.
> >      
> Avi, i not understand it clearly, Could you please explain it? :-(
>    

Right now if the fault is in spte i, you prefetch ptes 
(i+1)..(i+MAX_PREFETCH-1).  I'd like to prefetch ptes (i & 
~(MAX_PREFETCH-1))..(i | (MAX_PREFETCH - 1)).  Read all those gptes, and 
map them one by one with speculative = false only for spte i.

Perhaps we need to integrate it into walk_addr, there's  no reason to 
read the gptes twice.


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