On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 11:57:33AM +0800, Jingqi Liu wrote:
> The CLDEMOTE instruction hints to hardware that the cache line that
> contains the linear address should be moved("demoted") from
> the cache(s) closest to the processor core to a level more distant
> from the processor core. This may ac
Yes. The corresponding patch in KVM refers to the following link:
https://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg2792864.html
Thanks.
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From: Eduardo Habkost [mailto:ehabk...@redhat.com]
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To: Liu, Jingqi
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org; pbonz...@r
On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 11:57:33AM +0800, Jingqi Liu wrote:
> The CLDEMOTE instruction hints to hardware that the cache line that
> contains the linear address should be moved("demoted") from
> the cache(s) closest to the processor core to a level more distant
> from the processor core. This may ac
The CLDEMOTE instruction hints to hardware that the cache line that
contains the linear address should be moved("demoted") from
the cache(s) closest to the processor core to a level more distant
from the processor core. This may accelerate subsequent accesses
to the line by other cores in the same
