Re: Patch to increase the number of tlb entries a guest uses

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On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 06:46:29PM +0200, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> Hi Scott,
> I just discussed with Hollis about shadow tlb management in the 
> hypervisor and he mentioned that you already have a patch that lets the 
> guest use more tlb entries than it would have on bare metal hardware and 
> therefore allow to handle more tlb misses in the host because the shadow 
> tlb already holds that information.
> 
> It would be nice if you could provide me and the kvmppc community that 
> patch, because I wanted to modify our tlb handling a bit. If it would be 
> easy enough I would like to test that with a different number of guest 
> tlb entries too to see how big the impact of such a change would be to 
> our shadow tlb management.

It's not a patch to KVM, it's something I've done on Freescale's
hypervisor (which isn't released yet).

-Scott
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