[PATCH v3 0/2] KVM/ARM Huge pages support

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier at arm.com
Tue Oct 8 13:22:41 EDT 2013


On 04/10/13 17:13, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> This small series adds support for Transparent Huge Pages and hugetlbfs
> pages for KVM on the arm and arm64 architectures.
> 
> Measurements have shown that using huge pages in for stage-2 mappings
> provides up to more than 15% performance increase for some workloads.
> 
> The patch series applies to kvm/next, but depends on the patch sent
> earlier:
> http://marc.info/?l=kvm&m=138074894126934&w=2
> 
> The whole thing can also be cloned from here:
> git://git.linaro.org/people/cdall/linux-kvm-arm.git kvm-arm-hugepages-v3
> 
> See the patches for changelogs.
> 
> Christoffer Dall (2):
>   KVM: ARM: Support hugetlbfs backed huge pages
>   KVM: ARM: Transparent huge page (THP) support
> 
>  arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h         |  17 ++-
>  arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h  |   2 +
>  arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c                     | 223 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h       |  12 +-
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-hwdef.h |   2 +
>  5 files changed, 212 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)

Looks good to me. For the series:

Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>

	M.
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