Re: [PATCH v5 6/9] KVM: MMU: introduce pte_prefetch_topup_memory_cache()

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Tue Jul 13 2010 - 00:21:31 EST


On 07/13/2010 04:16 AM, Xiao Guangrong wrote:


btw, what about dirty logging? will prefetch cause pages to be marked
dirty?

We may need to instantiate prefetched pages with spte.d=0 and examine it
when tearing down the spte.

Yeah, all speculative path are broken dirty bit tracking, and i guess it's
need more review, so i plan to do it in the separate patch, i'll post it after
this patchset merged, could you allow it?


Regressions? no. Or do you mean the problem already exists? Where?

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