On 09/20/2010 04:21 PM, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
Gfn may have many shadow pages, when one sp need be synced, we write protected sp->gfn and sync this sp but we keep other shadow pages asynchronous So, while gfn happen page fault, let it not touches unsync page, the unsync page only updated at invlpg/flush TLB time @@ -3157,6 +3164,9 @@ void kvm_mmu_pte_write(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t gpa, mask.cr0_wp = mask.cr4_pae = mask.nxe = 1; for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(vcpu->kvm, sp, gfn, node) { + if (sp->unsync) + continue; +
Not sure this is a win. If a gpte is updated from having p=0 to p=1 (or permissions upgraded), we may not have an invlpg to sync the spte, since the hardware doesn't require it. With this change, we may get an extra #PF.
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