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From: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@intel.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@citrix.com>,
	"Wu, Feng" <feng.wu@intel.com>,
	George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com>,
	Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
	Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>,
	Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
	GeorgeDunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>,
	"xen-devel@lists.xen.org" <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>,
	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: vmx: VT-d posted-interrupt core logic handling
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 09:20:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AADFC41AFE54684AB9EE6CBC0274A5D15F7E297D@SHSMSX101.ccr.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56E146F402000078000DB1EA@prv-mh.provo.novell.com>

> From: Jan Beulich [mailto:JBeulich@suse.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2016 5:06 PM
> 
> 
> > There are many linked list usages today in Xen hypervisor, which
> > have different theoretical maximum possible number. The closest
> > one to PI might be the usage in tmem (pool->share_list) which is
> > page based so could grow 'overly large'. Other examples are
> > magnitude lower, e.g. s->ioreq_vcpu_list in ioreq server (which
> > could be 8K in above example), and d->arch.hvm_domain.msixtbl_list
> > in MSI-x virtualization (which could be 2^11 per spec). Do we
> > also want to create some artificial scenarios to examine them
> > since based on actual operation K-level entries may also become
> > a problem?
> >
> > Just want to figure out how best we can solve all related linked-list
> > usages in current hypervisor.
> 
> As you say, those are (perhaps with the exception of tmem, which
> isn't supported anyway due to XSA-15, and which therefore also
> isn't on by default) in the order of a few thousand list elements.
> And as mentioned above, different bounds apply for lists traversed
> in interrupt context vs such traversed only in "normal" context.
> 

That's a good point. Interrupt context should have more restrictions.

Thanks
Kevin

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-10  9:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-29  3:00 [PATCH v14 0/2] Add VT-d Posted-Interrupts support Feng Wu
2016-02-29  3:00 ` [PATCH v14 1/2] vmx: VT-d posted-interrupt core logic handling Feng Wu
2016-02-29 13:33   ` Jan Beulich
2016-02-29 13:52     ` Dario Faggioli
2016-03-01  5:39       ` Wu, Feng
2016-03-01  9:24         ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-01 10:16     ` George Dunlap
2016-03-01 13:06       ` Wu, Feng
2016-03-01  5:24   ` Tian, Kevin
2016-03-01  5:39     ` Wu, Feng
2016-03-04 22:00   ` Ideas " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-03-07 11:21     ` George Dunlap
2016-03-07 15:53       ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-03-07 16:19         ` Dario Faggioli
2016-03-07 20:23           ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-03-08 12:02         ` George Dunlap
2016-03-08 13:10           ` Wu, Feng
2016-03-08 14:42             ` George Dunlap
2016-03-08 15:42               ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-08 17:05                 ` George Dunlap
2016-03-08 17:26                   ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-08 18:38                     ` George Dunlap
2016-03-09  5:06                       ` Wu, Feng
2016-03-09 13:39                       ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-09 16:01                         ` George Dunlap
2016-03-09 16:31                           ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-09 16:23                         ` On setting clear criteria for declaring a feature acceptable (was "vmx: VT-d posted-interrupt core logic handling") George Dunlap
2016-03-09 16:58                           ` On setting clear criteria for declaring a feature acceptable Jan Beulich
2016-03-09 18:02                           ` On setting clear criteria for declaring a feature acceptable (was "vmx: VT-d posted-interrupt core logic handling") David Vrabel
2016-03-10  1:15                             ` Wu, Feng
2016-03-10  9:30                             ` George Dunlap
2016-03-10  5:09                           ` Tian, Kevin
2016-03-10  8:07                             ` vmx: VT-d posted-interrupt core logic handling Jan Beulich
2016-03-10  8:43                               ` Tian, Kevin
2016-03-10  9:05                                 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-10  9:20                                   ` Tian, Kevin [this message]
2016-03-10 10:05                                   ` Tian, Kevin
2016-03-10 10:18                                     ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-10 10:35                                       ` David Vrabel
2016-03-10 10:46                                         ` George Dunlap
2016-03-10 11:16                                           ` David Vrabel
2016-03-10 11:49                                             ` George Dunlap
2016-03-10 13:24                                             ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-10 11:00                                       ` George Dunlap
2016-03-10 11:21                                         ` Dario Faggioli
2016-03-10 13:36                                     ` Wu, Feng
2016-05-17 13:27                                       ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-05-19  7:22                                         ` Wu, Feng
2016-03-10 10:41                               ` George Dunlap
2016-03-09  5:22                   ` Ideas Re: [PATCH v14 1/2] " Wu, Feng
2016-03-09 11:25                     ` George Dunlap
2016-03-09 12:06                       ` Wu, Feng
2016-02-29  3:00 ` [PATCH v14 2/2] Add a command line parameter for VT-d posted-interrupts Feng Wu

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