From 2032a93d66fa282ba0f2ea9152eeff9511fa9a96 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lai Jiangshan Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 16:49:59 +0800 Subject: KVM: MMU: Don't allocate gfns page for direct mmu pages When sp->role.direct is set, sp->gfns does not contain any essential information, leaf sptes reachable from this sp are for a continuous guest physical memory range (a linear range). So sp->gfns[i] (if it was set) equals to sp->gfn + i. (PT_PAGE_TABLE_LEVEL) Obviously, it is not essential information, we can calculate it when need. It means we don't need sp->gfns when sp->role.direct=1, Thus we can save one page usage for every kvm_mmu_page. Note: Access to sp->gfns must be wrapped by kvm_mmu_page_get_gfn() or kvm_mmu_page_set_gfn(). It is only exposed in FNAME(sync_page). Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity --- Documentation/kvm/mmu.txt | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation/kvm/mmu.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/kvm/mmu.txt b/Documentation/kvm/mmu.txt index 0e872ae..2201dcb 100644 --- a/Documentation/kvm/mmu.txt +++ b/Documentation/kvm/mmu.txt @@ -180,7 +180,9 @@ Shadow pages contain the following information: guest pages as leaves. gfns: An array of 512 guest frame numbers, one for each present pte. Used to - perform a reverse map from a pte to a gfn. + perform a reverse map from a pte to a gfn. When role.direct is set, any + element of this array can be calculated from the gfn field when used, in + this case, the array of gfns is not allocated. See role.direct and gfn. slot_bitmap: A bitmap containing one bit per memory slot. If the page contains a pte mapping a page from memory slot n, then bit n of slot_bitmap will be set -- cgit v1.1