Re: [PATCH 8/13] KVM: vcpu execution loop

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Antonio Vargas wrote:

I could do that, but I feel that's more brittle.  I might need more (or
other) fields later on.  It will also cost me more  pushes on the stack
(no real performance or space impact, just C64-era frugality).

maybe thats the mindsent needed to make these virtual cpu patches
without eating away all the cpu power with more than needed
abstractions ;)


Unfortunately not. Saving a cycle or two doesn't help when a vm exit costs thousands of cycles, and worse, kills your tlb.

The key is eliminating unnecessary exits. I have plans for massively optimizing the mmu virtualization, and the next AMD core will do that in hardware (look for a "nested page tables" sticker before you buy).

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Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.

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