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In a HVM guest the kernel allocates the page for mapping the shared info structure via extend_brk() today. This will lead to a drop of performance as the underlying EPT entry will have to be split up into 4kB entries as the single shared info page is located in hypervisor memory. The issue has been detected by using the libmicro munmap test: unmapping 8kB of memory was faster by nearly a factor of two when no pv interfaces were active in the HVM guest. So instead of taking a page from memory which might be mapped via large EPT entries use a page which is already mapped via a 4kB EPT entry: we can take a page from the first 1MB of memory as the video memory at 640kB disallows using larger EPT entries. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.