Re: [PATCH] ARM64: KVM: Fix coherent_icache_guest_page() for host with external L3-cache.

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On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 02:21:57PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On 2013-08-30 11:44, Anup Patel wrote:
> > For KVM, we can avoid flushing d-cache to PoC every time in
> > coherent_icache_guest_page() by only doing it when Guest MMU is
> > turned-off. This may reduce the performance penalty.
> 
> What about the I and C bits in SCTLR_EL1? Does L3 also honour these 
> bits?

I would think so, it probably cares about how the transactions are
presented at the bus level by the CPU.

-- 
Catalin
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