Re: [PATCH] KVM: PPC: Add generic hpte management functions

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On 26.06.2010, at 01:16, Alexander Graf wrote:

> Currently the shadow paging code keeps an array of entries it knows about.
> Whenever the guest invalidates an entry, we loop through that entry,
> trying to invalidate matching parts.
> 
> While this is a really simple implementation, it is probably the most
> ineffective one possible. So instead, let's keep an array of lists around
> that are indexed by a hash. This way each PTE can be added by 4 list_add,
> removed by 4 list_del invocations and the search only needs to loop through
> entries that share the same hash.
> 
> This patch implements said lookup and exports generic functions that both
> the 32-bit and 64-bit backend can use.

Yikes - I forgot -n.

This is patch 1/2.


Alex

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