[PATCH 32/50] KVM: MMU: Avoid page prefetch on SVM

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Thu Jun 26 2008 - 08:32:44 EST


SVM cannot benefit from page prefetching since guest page fault bypass
cannot by made to work there. Avoid accessing the guest page table in
this case.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 5 ++++-
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
index 62741b7..5ebb278 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -850,7 +850,10 @@ static struct kvm_mmu_page *kvm_mmu_get_page(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
hlist_add_head(&sp->hash_link, bucket);
if (!metaphysical)
rmap_write_protect(vcpu->kvm, gfn);
- vcpu->arch.mmu.prefetch_page(vcpu, sp);
+ if (shadow_trap_nonpresent_pte != shadow_notrap_nonpresent_pte)
+ vcpu->arch.mmu.prefetch_page(vcpu, sp);
+ else
+ nonpaging_prefetch_page(vcpu, sp);
return sp;
}

--
1.5.6

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