[PATCH 1/2] KVM: PPC: Add generic hpte management functions

Alexander Graf agraf at suse.de
Tue Jun 22 22:14:18 EST 2010


Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 06/22/2010 03:10 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> If you have more performance hints, I'll gladly take them :).
>>    
>
> Using a cpu that virtualizes the mmu in hardware helps tremendously.
>

PPC never does that. Even with the virtualization extensions the MMU is
still software managed. I was also more thinking of hints like
"kmem_cache_zalloc is slow" or so ;).


Alex



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