KVM: MMU: large page support

Create large pages mappings if the guest PTE's are marked as such and
the underlying memory is hugetlbfs backed.  If the largepage contains
write-protected pages, a large pte is not used.

Gives a consistent 2% improvement for data copies on ram mounted
filesystem, without NPT/EPT.

Anthony measures a 4% improvement on 4-way kernbench, with NPT.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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Marcelo Tosatti
2008-02-23 11:44:30 -03:00
committed by Avi Kivity
parent 2e53d63acb
commit 05da45583d
6 changed files with 262 additions and 32 deletions

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@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ struct kvm_stats_debugfs_item debugfs_entries[] = {
{ "mmu_recycled", VM_STAT(mmu_recycled) },
{ "mmu_cache_miss", VM_STAT(mmu_cache_miss) },
{ "remote_tlb_flush", VM_STAT(remote_tlb_flush) },
{ "largepages", VM_STAT(lpages) },
{ NULL }
};