On 10/26/2010 12:42 PM, Prasad Joshi wrote:
Thanks a lot for your reply. On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Avi Kivity<avi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10/26/2010 11:19 AM, Prasad Joshi wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> I was just going over TODO list on KVM page. In MMU related TODO I saw >> only page eviction algorithm currently implemented is FIFO. >> >> Is it really the case? > > Yes. > >> If yes I would like to work on it. Can someone >> let me know the place where the FIFO code is implemented? > > Look at the code that touches mmu_active_list. > > FWIW improving the algorithm is not critically important. It's rare that > mmu shadow pages need to be evicted. I would be doing a University project on Virtualization. I would like to work on Linux kernel and KVM. I was looking over the TODO list on KVM wiki. Can you please suggest me something that would add value to KVM?
O(1) write protection (on the TODO page) is interesting and important. It's difficult, so you may want to start with O(1) invalidation.
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