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Oleksii Kurochko
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Current implementation is based on x86's way to allocate VMIDs: VMIDs partition the physical TLB. In the current implementation VMIDs are introduced to reduce the number of TLB flushes. Each time a guest-physical address space changes, instead of flushing the TLB, a new VMID is assigned. This reduces the number of TLB flushes to at most 1/#VMIDs. The biggest advantage is that hot parts of the hypervisor's code and data retain in the TLB. VMIDs are a hart-local resource. As preemption of VMIDs is not possible, VMIDs are assigned in a round-robin scheme. To minimize the overhead of VMID invalidation, at the time of a TLB flush, VMIDs are tagged with a 64-bit generation. Only on a generation overflow the code needs to invalidate all VMID information stored at the VCPUs with are run on the specific physical processor. When this overflow appears VMID usage is disabled to retain correctness. Only minor changes are made compared to the x86 implementation. These include using RISC-V-specific terminology, adding a check to ensure the type used for storing the VMID has enough bits to hold VMIDLEN, and introducing a new function vmidlen_detect() to clarify the VMIDLEN value, rename stuff connected to VMID enable/disable to "VMID use enable/disable". Signed-off-by: Oleksii Kurochko <oleksii.kurochko@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
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