RE: [Xen-devel] [Patch][RFC] Super Page Patch

["Huang2, Wei" <Wei.Huang2@xxxxxxx>]

Ian,

Super page has many advantages by reducing TLB misses and the nested
page table walk. I am currently collecting the performance results of
commonly used benchmarks. The results will be posted next time along
with a formal patch (probably this week).

Thanks,

-Wei

-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Pratt [mailto:Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 6:52 PM
To: Huang2, Wei; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Ian Pratt
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] [Patch][RFC] Super Page Patch

> The attached file is the super page patch which supports both 2MB and
> 4MB (depending on the paging modes of hypervisor) under hardware
> assisted paging. The idea is to allocate super pages when guests are
> being created. Whenever such requests cannot be satisfied, it falls
> back to normal 4KB allocation. Also it splits large pages into normal
> 4KB pages whenever necessary. This patch is applicable on the latest
> xen-unstable tree.
> 
> Any comment/suggestion is welcomed! Since it also touches a small
> portion of IA64 and PowerPC code, I would appreciate the information
of
> whether this patch breaks IA64 or PowerPC compilation.

It's great to see this patch, thanks.

Could you give a summary of what testing its been subjected to? Also, do
you have any performance results? I'm particularly interested in results
with a 64b hypervisor.

We'll have to update the balloon driver to try and hand back 2MB aligned
slabs to avoid fragmentation.

Thanks,
Ian






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