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From: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
To: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v38 16/24] x86/sgx: Add a page reclaimer
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 01:35:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200929083528.GN353@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200929035010.GB301037@linux.intel.com>

On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 06:50:10AM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 06:14:39PM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 05:03:23PM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 12:45:38PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > > > > +	spin_lock(&sgx_active_page_list_lock);
> > > > > +	for (i = 0; i < SGX_NR_TO_SCAN; i++) {
> > > > > +		if (list_empty(&sgx_active_page_list))
> > > > 
> > > > Isn't it enough to do this once, i.e., not in the loop? You're holding
> > > > sgx_active_page_list_lock...
> > 
> > Argh, I missed this until I looked at Jarkko's updated tree.
> > 
> > The reason for checking list_empty() on every iteration is that the loop is
> > greedy, i.e. it tries to grab and reclaim up to 16 (SGX_NR_TO_SCAN) EPC pages
> > at a time.
> > 
> > > I think that would make sense. Distantly analogous to the EINIT
> > > discussion. Too complex code for yet to be known problem workloads I'd
> > > say.
> > 
> > Nooooo.  Please no.
> 
> I added this comment in the beginning of the sgx_reclaim_pages() based
> on your response:
> 
> /*
>  * Take a fixed number of pages from the head of the active page pool and
>  * reclaim them to the enclave's private shmem files. Skip the pages, which have
>  * been accessed since the last scan. Move those pages to the tail of active
>  * page pool so that the pages get scanned in LRU like fashion.
>  *
>  * Batch process a chunk of pages (at the moment 16) in order to degrade amount
>  * of IPI's and ETRACK's potentially required. sgx_encl_ewb() does degrade a bit
>  * among the HW threads with three stage EWB pipeline (EWB, ETRACK + EWB and IPI
>  * + EWB) but not sufficiently. Reclaiming one page at a time would also be
>  * problematic as it would increase the lock contention too much, which would
>  * halt forward progress.
>  */
> 
> And reverted reclaimer patch as it was. Do you have anything in mind
> that I should add or modify in it?

Nope, can't think of anything.


  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-29  8:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 81+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20200915112842.897265-1-jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
2020-09-15 11:28 ` [PATCH v38 10/24] mm: Add vm_ops->mprotect() Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-09-18 12:44   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-09-18 15:09   ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-09-18 23:24     ` [PATCH v38 10/24] mm: Add vm_ops->mprotect()' Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-09-18 23:53     ` [PATCH v38 10/24] mm: Add vm_ops->mprotect() Sean Christopherson
2020-09-19  0:15       ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-09-22 12:58         ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-09-22 15:11           ` Dave Hansen
2020-09-23 13:30             ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-09-23 13:43             ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-09-23 14:33             ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-09-24 14:50               ` Dave Hansen
2020-09-24 16:27                 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-09-24 19:35                 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-09-21 12:49       ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-09-21 12:51         ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-09-21 13:14         ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-09-21 16:57         ` Sean Christopherson
2020-09-21 21:07           ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-09-21 21:18             ` Sean Christopherson
2020-09-22  5:29               ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-09-22  5:35                 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-09-22 16:43                   ` Sean Christopherson
2020-09-23 13:50                     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-09-24 19:11                       ` Haitao Huang
2020-09-24 19:28                         ` Sean Christopherson
2020-09-24 19:39                           ` Dave Hansen
2020-09-24 20:01                             ` Sean Christopherson
2020-09-24 20:10                               ` Dave Hansen
2020-09-24 20:25                                 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-09-24 20:54                                   ` Dave Hansen
2020-09-24 22:10                                     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-09-24 23:05                                     ` Sean Christopherson
2020-09-24 23:09                                       ` Dave Hansen
2020-09-25  0:00                                         ` Sean Christopherson
2020-09-25 17:18                                           ` Dave Hansen
2020-09-25 19:43                                             ` Sean Christopherson
2020-09-25 19:53                                               ` Dave Hansen
2020-09-26  4:15                                                 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-09-28  0:53                                                 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-09-28 14:04                                                   ` Dave Hansen
2020-09-28 16:19                                                     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-09-28 16:48                                                       ` Dave Hansen
2020-09-28 19:32                                                         ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-09-28 19:45                                                           ` Dave Hansen
2020-09-28 20:19                                                             ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-09-29  1:37                                                               ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-09-29  4:05                                                                 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-09-29 14:24                                                                   ` Dave Hansen
2020-09-30  0:20                                                                     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-09-30 14:35                                                                       ` Dave Hansen
2020-09-28 20:18                                                         ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-10-18  8:49                                                     ` Dr. Greg
2020-10-19 21:31                                                       ` Sean Christopherson
2020-10-20 10:01                                                         ` Dr. Greg
2020-10-20 16:40                                                           ` Sean Christopherson
2020-10-24 14:37                                                             ` Dr. Greg
2020-10-24 15:33                                                               ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-10-26 10:51                                                                 ` Dr. Greg
2020-10-26 22:59                                                                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-10-27  0:40                                                                     ` Sean Christopherson
2020-09-24 22:07                                 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-09-24 21:58                           ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-09-24 21:55                         ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-09-15 11:28 ` [PATCH v38 11/24] x86/sgx: Add SGX enclave driver Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-09-21  9:30   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-09-21 12:09     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-10-01 17:36   ` Sean Christopherson
2020-10-01 18:49     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-09-15 11:28 ` [PATCH v38 16/24] x86/sgx: Add a page reclaimer Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-09-22 10:45   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-09-22 14:03     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-09-22 14:24       ` Borislav Petkov
2020-09-23 14:52         ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-09-29  1:14       ` Sean Christopherson
2020-09-29  3:50         ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-09-29  8:35           ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2020-09-22 16:24     ` Sean Christopherson
2020-09-22 18:02       ` Borislav Petkov
2020-09-23 15:25       ` Jarkko Sakkinen
     [not found] <20200915110522.893152-1-jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
2020-09-15 11:05 ` Jarkko Sakkinen

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