Xen devel - Dec 2010 - [PATCH] x86: do pmd_populate with lazy mmu updates

This allows the set_pmd to be batched with whatever setup
paravirt_alloc_pte() needs to do.  pmd_populate() is always called
under the pagetable lock, so this is safe.

With a corresponding change in the Xen-specific code, this allows
the setup of a new pte page to be done with 1 hypercall rather than 3.
This results in a 3-8% improvement in fork performance, depending on
process size (more improvement on larger processes).  I expect a similar
improvement in time spent touching a virgin part of the address space.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgalloc.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgalloc.h
index 271de94..15e1153f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgalloc.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgalloc.h
@@ -71,8 +71,10 @@ static inline void pmd_populate(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t
*pmd,
 {
 	unsigned long pfn = page_to_pfn(pte);
 
+	arch_enter_lazy_mmu_mode();
 	paravirt_alloc_pte(mm, pfn);
 	set_pmd(pmd, __pmd(((pteval_t)pfn << PAGE_SHIFT) | _PAGE_TABLE));
+	arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode();
 }
 
 #define pmd_pgtable(pmd) pmd_page(pmd)



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