Re: [PATCH 0/15] KVM: optimize for MMIO handled

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Mon Jun 13 2011 - 04:06:54 EST


On 06/13/2011 07:46 AM, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
>>
>> and it has little heavy sine we need to walk guest page table,
>> and build spte under mmu-lock.
>
> For shadow, yes, this is a good optimization. But with nested paging it slow things down. We already have the gpa, so all we need to do is follow the mmio path. There's no need to walk the spte hierarchy.
>

Yes, it is, i just want to detect BUG for KVM, it helps us to know if "ept misconfig" is the
real MMIO or the BUG. I noticed some "ept misconfig" BUGs is reported before, so i think doing
this is necessary, and i think it is not too bad, since walking spte hierarchy is lockless,
it really fast.

Okay. We can later see if it show up on profiles.


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