Re: [PATCH 2/5] KVM: selftests: Remove address rounding in guest code

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On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 04:37:30PM -0700, Ben Gardon wrote:
> Rounding the address the guest writes to a host page boundary
> will only have an effect if the host page size is larger than the guest
> page size, but in that case the guest write would still go to the same
> host page. There's no reason to round the address down, so remove the
> rounding to simplify the demand paging test.
> 
> This series was tested by running the following invocations on an Intel
> Skylake machine:
> dirty_log_perf_test -b 20m -i 100 -v 64
> dirty_log_perf_test -b 20g -i 5 -v 4
> dirty_log_perf_test -b 4g -i 5 -v 32
> demand_paging_test -b 20m -v 64
> demand_paging_test -b 20g -v 4
> demand_paging_test -b 4g -v 32
> All behaved as expected.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@xxxxxxxxxx>

Nit: would be better to be before the code movement.  In all cases:

Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx>

-- 
Peter Xu




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