Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 03/14] target-ppc: use separate indices for various translation modes

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 16/09/2014 20:02, Richard Henderson ha scritto:
> While we could probably fix this for ppc (using addis), it's not nearly so
> easily fixable for arm -- without impacting performance anyway.
> 
> Does 96k worth of TLBs really help that much?  Are all 12 of them actually
> used?  Can we use a more complex encoding scheme for the mmu_idx and use less?

In practice, only 3 to 7 are---hence my original attempt at using some
kind of FIFO caching:

   user mode, translation enabled
   kernel mode, paging disabled
   kernel mode, paging enabled
   supervisor mode, paging disabled
   supervisor mode, paging enabled

Plus perhaps kernel and supervisor mode with only data paging enabled.

You could lump together the IR!=0, DR!=0 cases, and flush that one TLB
index if the IR/DR pair changes with respect to the last time.  This
would use 6 indices.

Paolo