Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 0/8] xen: arm: Use super pages in p2m

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian,

I should have CCd you on the tools elements of this series, sorry.

Patches 2 and 3 are the ones of interest.

Cheers,
Ian.

On Wed, 2014-06-11 at 17:37 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> The following series adds support for superpage mappings (1G and 2M) in
> the p2m for dom0 and domU.
> 
> At the moment it is not possible to allocate 1G regions to guests,
> because this is gated on multipage_allocation_permitted() which
> currently (incorrectly) returns false for dom0 on ARM. This is fixed by
> Arianna's "arch/arm: domain build: let dom0 access I/O memory of mapped
> devices" (which initialises iomem_caps for dom0).
> 
> On a 32-bit platform this causes the overhead of kernbench vs. native to
> drop from 8-9% to 1.5-3% (it's basically the same for both dom0 and
> domU).
> 
> I couldn't get my 64-bit platform to boot natively for some reason but
> in absolute terms kernbench improved by ~5% (domU) to ~15% (dom0).
> 
> Changes in v2:
>  - Juliens review comments
>  - Added "xen: arm: allocate more than one bank for 1:1 domain 0 if 
>    needed" (not strictly related...)
> 
> Ian.
> 
> 
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