On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:21:47AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 01/26/2011 02:08 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > >> > > >> >I just mean that once you fault you map sptes and then you can use them > >> >without exits. mmio will cause exits each time. Right? > >> > >> The swapper scanning sptes, ksmd, khugepaged, and swapping can all > >> cause a page to be unmapped. Though it should certainly happen with > >> a much lower frequency than mmio. > > > >Right. That's why I say that sorting by size might not be optimal. > >Maybe a cache ... > > Why would it not be optimal? > > If you have 16GB RAM in two slots and a few megabytes here and there > scattered in some slots, you have three orders of magnitudes to > spare. Yes but you might not be accessing all that RAM. Maybe your workset is just tens of megabytes. > -- > error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
