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From: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>,
	Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
	Peter Shier <pshier@google.com>,
	Junaid Shahid <junaids@google.com>,
	Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>,
	Yulei Zhang <yulei.kernel@gmail.com>,
	Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>,
	Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
	Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong.eric@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] Lazily allocate memslot rmaps
Date: Tue, 4 May 2021 10:28:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANgfPd_EvGg2N19HJs0nEq_rbaDJQQ9cUWS9wEsJ5wajNW_s7Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4d27e9d6-42db-3aa1-053a-552e1643f46d@redhat.com>

On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 12:21 AM Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 03/05/21 19:31, Ben Gardon wrote:
> > On Mon, May 3, 2021 at 6:45 AM Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 29/04/21 23:18, Ben Gardon wrote:
> >>> This series enables KVM to save memory when using the TDP MMU by waiting
> >>> to allocate memslot rmaps until they are needed. To do this, KVM tracks
> >>> whether or not a shadow root has been allocated. In order to get away
> >>> with not allocating the rmaps, KVM must also be sure to skip operations
> >>> which iterate over the rmaps. If the TDP MMU is in use and we have not
> >>> allocated a shadow root, these operations would essentially be op-ops
> >>> anyway. Skipping the rmap operations has a secondary benefit of avoiding
> >>> acquiring the MMU lock in write mode in many cases, substantially
> >>> reducing MMU lock contention.
> >>>
> >>> This series was tested on an Intel Skylake machine. With the TDP MMU off
> >>> and on, this introduced no new failures on kvm-unit-tests or KVM selftests.
> >>
> >> Thanks, I only reported some technicalities in the ordering of loads
> >> (which matter since the loads happen with SRCU protection only).  Apart
> >> from this, this looks fine!
> >
> > Awesome to hear, thank you for the reviews. Should I send a v3
> > addressing those comments, or did you already make those changes when
> > applying to your tree?
>
> No, I didn't (I wanted some oversight, and this is 5.14 stuff anyway).

Ah, okay I'll send out a v3 soon, discussion on the other patches settles.

>
> Paolo
>

  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-04 17:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-29 21:18 [PATCH v2 0/7] Lazily allocate memslot rmaps Ben Gardon
2021-04-29 21:18 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] KVM: x86/mmu: Track if shadow MMU active Ben Gardon
2021-05-03 13:42   ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-05-04 17:26     ` Ben Gardon
2021-05-04 20:18       ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-05-04 19:55   ` Sean Christopherson
2021-05-04 20:26     ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-05-04 20:36       ` Sean Christopherson
2021-04-29 21:18 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] KVM: x86/mmu: Skip rmap operations if shadow MMU inactive Ben Gardon
2021-04-29 21:18 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] KVM: x86/mmu: Deduplicate rmap freeing Ben Gardon
2021-04-29 21:18 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] KVM: x86/mmu: Factor out allocating memslot rmap Ben Gardon
2021-04-29 21:18 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] KVM: mmu: Refactor memslot copy Ben Gardon
2021-04-29 21:18 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] KVM: mmu: Add slots_arch_lock for memslot arch fields Ben Gardon
2021-05-03 13:29   ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-04-29 21:18 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] KVM: x86/mmu: Lazily allocate memslot rmaps Ben Gardon
2021-05-03 13:42   ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-05-03 17:29     ` Ben Gardon
2021-05-04 20:13   ` Sean Christopherson
2021-05-04 20:19     ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-05-04 20:34       ` Sean Christopherson
2021-05-04 20:22   ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-05-03 13:44 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] " Paolo Bonzini
2021-05-03 17:31   ` Ben Gardon
2021-05-04  7:21     ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-05-04 17:28       ` Ben Gardon [this message]
2021-05-04 18:17         ` Sean Christopherson

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