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[Xen-devel] Re: [patch 05/24] Xen-paravirt_ops: Add pagetable accessors

To: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: [patch 05/24] Xen-paravirt_ops: Add pagetable accessors to pack and unpack pagetable entries
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:20:56 -0800
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Andi Kleen wrote:
> Do you have some lmbench numbers before/after this change? 
> iirc at least fork and exit do a lot of pte accesses in various forms.
> If it's measurable it might be needed to patch those for the native case.
>   

I don't.  I think Rusty ran some numbers and found the pte accessors
became the most commonly used paravirt ops.

I'm working on revamping the pv_ops patching infrastructure at the
moment, so we should be able to deal with these fairly efficiently.

    J

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