[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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