Re: [RFC] KVM: x86/mmu: Prefetch forward run of pages on TDP page faults
From: Marangoni, Marco
Date: Tue Aug 25 2026 - 18:33:52 EST
On Tue, Aug 25, 2026, Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> If it provides comparable performance, I'll write a changelog (or two? e.g. to
> have direct MMUs switch in a separate patch), and let Sashiko and other bots rip
> apart my idea.
Wow, thanks so much for such a quick patch.
I gave it a shot in my test setup. While it's a bit slower than my patch, it's still ~69% faster on nested (rather than ~75%), which is amazing considering how much simpler it is than my proposal.