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Re: [Xen-devel] Regarding page table management changes from Xen v1 to X

To: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Regarding page table management changes from Xen v1 to Xen v2 (and v3)
From: Himanshu Raj <rhim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:40:57 -0400
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Although, same results can be obtained by doing the v1.2 way, i.e. making one
hypercall requesting these 1024 changes, no?

-Himanshu

On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 05:18:28PM +0100, Keir Fraser wrote:
> 
> On 26 Apr 2006, at 16:35, Himanshu Raj wrote:
> 
> >I am trying to understand the rationale behind this change. In 
> >previous case,
> >there would be no page faults due to page table updates and only one 
> >hypercall.
> >In the second case, there would be atleast 2 page faults due to PT 
> >management
> >activity, but no hypercalls. Besides, mapping and remapping with 
> >different permissions
> >imply removing this entry from TLB (which is hopefully being done with 
> >invlpg).
> >Benefit of latter approach only seems to be the removal of xen 
> >specific linux
> >code. Why was the approach changed? Could someone please shed some 
> >light on
> >this?
> 
> It's useful for batched updates (e.g., fork()) where the 2 faults are 
> amortised across up to 1024 pte changes.
> 
>  -- Keir

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