On 04/30/2010 12:03 PM, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
Allow new shadow page become unsync when is created, then we no need write-protect the 'sp->gfn', this idea is from Avi: |Another interesting case is to create new shadow pages in the unsync |state. That can help when the guest starts a short lived process: we |can avoid write protecting its pagetables completely
Any idea how this improves performance? A kernel build has a lot of short lived processes, might see an improvement there.
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