Re: [Qemu-devel] How to measure guest memory access (qemu_ld/qemu_st) time?

[Wei-Ren Chen]

> But if QEMU/TCG is doing a GVA->GPA translation as Wei-Ren said, I don't see 
> how
> KVM can help.

  Just want to clarify. QEMU maintain a TLB (env->tlb_table) which stores GVA ->
HVA mapping, it is used to speedup the address translation. If TLB miss, QEMU
will call cpu_arm_handle_mmu_fault (take ARM as an example) doing GVA -> GPA
translation.
 
> I could understand having multiple 32bit regions in QEMU's virtual space (no
> need for KVM), one per guest page table, and then simply adding an offset to
> every memory access to redirect it to the appropriate 32-bit region (1 region
> per guest page table).
> 
> This could translate a single guest ld/st into a host ld+add+ld/st (the first
> load is to get the "region" offset for the currently executing guest context).

  It differs from what QEMU's doing? Each time we fill TLB, we add an offset to
the GPA to get HVA, then store GVA -> HVA mapping into the TLB (IIUC). I don't
see much differences here.
 
Regards,
chenwj

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Wei-Ren Chen (陳韋任)
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