On Fri, Feb 02, 2024 at 08:07:54AM +, Ryan Roberts wrote:
> When core code iterates over a range of ptes and calls ptep_get() for
> each of them, if the range happens to cover contpte mappings, the number
> of pte reads becomes amplified by a factor of the number of PTEs in a
> contpte block.
On 02.02.24 09:07, Ryan Roberts wrote:
When core code iterates over a range of ptes and calls ptep_get() for
each of them, if the range happens to cover contpte mappings, the number
of pte reads becomes amplified by a factor of the number of PTEs in a
contpte block. This is because for each call
When core code iterates over a range of ptes and calls ptep_get() for
each of them, if the range happens to cover contpte mappings, the number
of pte reads becomes amplified by a factor of the number of PTEs in a
contpte block. This is because for each call to ptep_get(), the
implementation must