Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] KVM: large page support

2008-02-23 Thread Avi Kivity
Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > Create large pages mappings if the guest PTE's are marked as such and > the underlying memory is hugetlbfs backed. > > Gives a consistent 2% improvement for data copies on ram mounted > filesystem, without NPT/EPT. > > Applied, thanks (as well as the qemu part). -- er

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] KVM: large page support

2008-02-23 Thread Anthony Liguori
Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > Create large pages mappings if the guest PTE's are marked as such and > the underlying memory is hugetlbfs backed. > > Gives a consistent 2% improvement for data copies on ram mounted > filesystem, without NPT/EPT. > FWIW, with NPT, I'm seeing kernbench get about a 4% i

[kvm-devel] [PATCH] KVM: large page support

2008-02-23 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Create large pages mappings if the guest PTE's are marked as such and the underlying memory is hugetlbfs backed. Gives a consistent 2% improvement for data copies on ram mounted filesystem, without NPT/EPT. Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: kvm.paravirt3/arch/x86/kvm/mmu