[PATCH 4/7] KVM: PPC: Add book3s_32 tlbie flush acceleration

[Avi Kivity]

  On 07/29/2010 04:04 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> On Book3s_32 the tlbie instruction flushed effective addresses by the mask
> 0x0ffff000. This is pretty hard to reflect with a hash that hashes ~0xfff, so
> to speed up that target we should also keep a special hash around for it.
>
>
>   static inline u64 kvmppc_mmu_hash_vpte(u64 vpage)
>   {
>   	return hash_64(vpage&  0xfffffffffULL, HPTEG_HASH_BITS_VPTE);
> @@ -66,6 +72,11 @@ void kvmppc_mmu_hpte_cache_map(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct hpte_cache *pte)
>   	index = kvmppc_mmu_hash_pte(pte->pte.eaddr);
>   	hlist_add_head_rcu(&pte->list_pte,&vcpu->arch.hpte_hash_pte[index]);
>
> +	/* Add to ePTE_long list */
> +	index = kvmppc_mmu_hash_pte_long(pte->pte.eaddr);
> +	hlist_add_head_rcu(&pte->list_pte_long,
> +			&vcpu->arch.hpte_hash_pte_long[index]);
> +

Isn't it better to make operations on this list conditional on 
Book3s_32?  Hashes are expensive since they usually cost cache misses.

Can of course be done later as an optimization.

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