Re: [Qemu-devel] outlined TLB lookup on x86

[Xin Tong]

I have submitted a patch to the QEMU devel list on implementing a
victim tlb in QEMU. i should have you 2 CC'ed on the patch email so
that you can help review the patch in case no one is reviewing it. The
name of the patch is
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] cpu: implementing victim TLB for QEMU system emulated TLB

Thank you,
Xin

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Richard Henderson <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 01/22/2014 09:35 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> I don't really know the details of Alpha, but can you get away with just
>> "we implement N contexts, and only actually keep the most recently
>> used N"? This is effectively what we're doing at the moment, with N==1.
>
> Yes, I suppose we could do that.  Rather than have the ASN switching code be a
> simple store, it could be a full helper function.  At which point we can do
> just about anything at all.
>
>
> r~