Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 3/5] svm: implement instruction fetch part of DecodeAssist

[Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxx>]

On 15/04/2011 13:22, "Andre Przywara" <andre.przywara@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Newer SVM implementations (Bulldozer) copy up to 15 bytes from the
> instruction stream into the VMCB when a #PF or #NPF exception is
> intercepted. This patch makes use of this information if available.
> This saves us from a) traversing the guest's page tables, b) mapping
> the guest's memory and c) copy the instructions from there into the
> hypervisor's address space.
> This speeds up #NPF intercepts quite a lot and avoids cache and TLB
> trashing.

This is a bit skanky. I'll have a think about a neater way of doing it.

 -- Keir

> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@xxxxxxx>
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