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xen-devel
Re: [Xen-devel] map memory holes with same page
On Mon, May 23, Tim Deegan wrote:
> At 09:42 +0100 on 23 May (1306143771), Paul Durrant wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > [snip]
> > >
> > > Should there be a performance impact if Windows tries to touch a
> > > page that I have previously given pack with decrease_reservation?
> > > Will that invoke the PoD sweep?
> > >
> >
> > No. The p2m entry will be 'invalid', not 'PoD'. IIRC the sweep should
> > only be invoked if the cache is exhausted when trying to fix up a PoD
> > entry.
>
> But yes, there will be a performance impact because all accesses to the
> missing page will be emulated by sending an ioreq to qemu, so it will
> run _very_ slowly.
Isnt that what I just "fixed" for kdump, the new get_mem_type hvmop?
Could that be reused for this Windows issue?
Olaf
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