[Lguest] [PATCH RFC/RFB] x86_64, i386: interrupt dispatch changes
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
jeremy at goop.org
Wed Nov 5 07:02:25 EST 2008
Ingo Molnar wrote:
> ( another advantage is that the 6 bytes GDT descriptor is more
> compressed and hence uses up less L1/L2 cache footprint than the
> larger (~7 byte) trampolines we have at the moment. )
>
Also its D cache rather than I cache, which is generally more
plentiful. However, I think the cost of GDT cache misses on exception
latency is something that we've largely overlooked, and this will make
it a bigger factor (vs cache misses on the actual exception handler code
itself, which should be reduced).
J
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