Re: [PATCH 2/2] vmx: speed up wildcard MMIO EVENTFD

2014-04-17 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 03:33:55PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 09:50:44PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > With KVM, MMIO is much slower than PIO, due to the need to > > do page walk and emulation. But with EPT, it does not have to be: we > > know the address from

Re: [PATCH 2/2] vmx: speed up wildcard MMIO EVENTFD

2014-04-17 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 09:50:44PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > With KVM, MMIO is much slower than PIO, due to the need to > do page walk and emulation. But with EPT, it does not have to be: we > know the address from the VMCS so if the address is unique, we can look > up the eventfd directly