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KVM: ppc: save and restore guest mappings on context switch

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Store shadow TLB entries in memory, but only use it on host context switch
(instead of every guest entry). This improves performance for most workloads on
440 by reducing the guest TLB miss rate.

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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Hollis Blanchard
2008-12-02 15:51:56 -06:00
committed by Avi Kivity
parent 7924bd4109
commit c5fbdffbda
3 changed files with 66 additions and 5 deletions
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arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_44x.h
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@@ -42,6 +42,10 @@ struct kvmppc_vcpu_44x {
/* References to guest pages in the hardware TLB. */
struct kvmppc_44x_shadow_ref shadow_refs[PPC44x_TLB_SIZE];
/* State of the shadow TLB at guest context switch time. */
struct kvmppc_44x_tlbe shadow_tlb[PPC44x_TLB_SIZE];
u8 shadow_tlb_mod[PPC44x_TLB_SIZE];
struct kvm_vcpu vcpu;
};
@@ -51,5 +55,7 @@ static inline struct kvmppc_vcpu_44x *to_44x(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
}
void kvmppc_set_pid(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 new_pid);
void kvmppc_44x_tlb_put(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
void kvmppc_44x_tlb_load(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
#endif /* __ASM_44X_H__ */