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2008 Feb 21
2
[PATCH][RFC]Remove lock on first guest table walk
Just found this patch in house which I thought sent out already. :-) Still one thing remaining is to special case for UP guest which suffers overhead from this change... ---- Remove lock on first guest table walk Existing shadow fault path grabs big lock before walking guest tables, to ensure consistency with shadow content lest concurrent change from other vcpu in a bad OS. But this lock
2008 Feb 22
3
FW: [PATCH][UPDATE]Remove lock on guest table walk
...rsion" field called something more > descriptive, and moved into the shadow-specific domain state, > since HAP won''t be using it. Done and renamed to gtable_dirty_version. Sorry if this is still not a good name and please feel free help polish a better name. :-) > - In shadow_check_gwalk, maybe return 1 at the top of the function if > the version number hasn''t changed, rather than putting most of the > function inside an if()? Agree. > - You''ve added a second "not a shadow_fault" printout without removing > the first. The first one...