Re: [PATCH 2/7] kvm mmu: infrastructure changes for multiple hugepage support

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Sun Mar 29 2009 - 07:39:03 EST


Joerg Roedel wrote:
This patch includes most of the necessary changes to the KVM SoftMMU for
supporting more than one huge page size. The changes in this patch
include:

* introduce 'enum kvm_page_size' which is used to represent the page
size used

How about the concept of page_level instead, which returns the level of a page in terms of the paging hierarchy? Would be easier to compare against in the various walkers.

I've been thinking for a while to make levels zero-based, so 0 would be a 4K page, 1 a 2M page, and 2 a 1GB page.




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