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From: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>,
	Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 8/9] KVM: X86: Optimize pte_list_desc with per-array counter
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2021 17:51:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YQHRV/uEZ4LqPVNI@t490s> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YQHGXhOc5gO9aYsL@google.com>

On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 09:04:30PM +0000, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> >  struct pte_list_desc {
> >  	u64 *sptes[PTE_LIST_EXT];
> > +	/*
> > +	 * Stores number of entries stored in the pte_list_desc.  No need to be
> > +	 * u64 but just for easier alignment.  When PTE_LIST_EXT, means full.
> > +	 */
> > +	u64 spte_count;
> 
> Per my feedback to the previous patch, this should be above sptes[] so that rmaps
> with <8 SPTEs only touch one cache line.  No idea if it actually matters in
> practice, but I can't see how it would harm anything.

Reasonable.  Not sure whether this would change the numbers a bit in the commit
message; it can be slightly better but also possible to be non-observable.
Paolo, let me know if you want me to repost/retest with the change (along with
keeping the comment in the other patch).

Thanks for looking!

-- 
Peter Xu


  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-28 21:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-25 15:32 [PATCH v2 0/9] KVM: X86: Some light optimizations on rmap logic Peter Xu
2021-06-25 15:32 ` [PATCH v2 1/9] KVM: X86: Add per-vm stat for max rmap list size Peter Xu
2021-06-25 15:32 ` [PATCH v2 2/9] KVM: Introduce kvm_get_kvm_safe() Peter Xu
2021-07-26 13:42   ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-06-25 15:32 ` [PATCH v2 3/9] KVM: Allow to have arch-specific per-vm debugfs files Peter Xu
2021-06-25 15:32 ` [PATCH v2 4/9] KVM: X86: Introduce pte_list_count() helper Peter Xu
2021-06-25 15:32 ` [PATCH v2 5/9] KVM: X86: Introduce kvm_mmu_slot_lpages() helpers Peter Xu
2021-06-25 15:32 ` [PATCH v2 6/9] KVM: X86: Introduce mmu_rmaps_stat per-vm debugfs file Peter Xu
2021-06-25 15:34 ` [PATCH v2 7/9] KVM: X86: MMU: Tune PTE_LIST_EXT to be bigger Peter Xu
2021-07-28 21:01   ` Sean Christopherson
2021-06-25 15:34 ` [PATCH v2 8/9] KVM: X86: Optimize pte_list_desc with per-array counter Peter Xu
2021-07-28 21:04   ` Sean Christopherson
2021-07-28 21:51     ` Peter Xu [this message]
2021-07-29  9:33       ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-07-29 15:53         ` Peter Xu
2021-07-30 15:45     ` Peter Xu
2021-06-25 15:34 ` [PATCH v2 9/9] KVM: X86: Optimize zapping rmap Peter Xu
2021-07-28 21:39   ` Sean Christopherson
2021-07-28 22:01     ` Peter Xu
2021-07-28 22:31       ` Sean Christopherson
2021-07-29  9:35         ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-07-26 13:05 ` [PATCH v2 0/9] KVM: X86: Some light optimizations on rmap logic Paolo Bonzini

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