From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
To: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: gleb@redhat.com, avi.kivity@gmail.com, pbonzini@redhat.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 02/15] KVM: MMU: lazily drop large spte
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 20:44:59 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131112224459.GA14651@amt.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1382534973-13197-3-git-send-email-xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 09:29:20PM +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> Currently, kvm zaps the large spte if write-protected is needed, the later
> read can fault on that spte. Actually, we can make the large spte readonly
> instead of making them un-present, the page fault caused by read access can
> be avoided
>
> The idea is from Avi:
> | As I mentioned before, write-protecting a large spte is a good idea,
> | since it moves some work from protect-time to fault-time, so it reduces
> | jitter. This removes the need for the return value.
>
> This version has fixed the issue reported in 6b73a9606, the reason of that
> issue is that fast_page_fault() directly sets the readonly large spte to
> writable but only dirty the first page into the dirty-bitmap that means
> other pages are missed. Fixed it by only the normal sptes (on the
> PT_PAGE_TABLE_LEVEL level) can be fast fixed
>
> Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-13 1:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-23 13:29 [PATCH v3 00/15] KVM: MMU: locklessly write-protect Xiao Guangrong
2013-10-23 13:29 ` [PATCH v3 01/15] KVM: MMU: properly check last spte in fast_page_fault() Xiao Guangrong
2013-11-12 0:25 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-10-23 13:29 ` [PATCH v3 02/15] KVM: MMU: lazily drop large spte Xiao Guangrong
2013-11-12 22:44 ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2013-10-23 13:29 ` [PATCH v3 03/15] KVM: MMU: flush tlb if the spte can be locklessly modified Xiao Guangrong
2013-11-13 0:10 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-10-23 13:29 ` [PATCH v3 04/15] KVM: MMU: flush tlb out of mmu lock when write-protect the sptes Xiao Guangrong
2013-11-14 0:36 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-11-14 5:15 ` Xiao Guangrong
2013-11-14 18:39 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-11-15 7:09 ` Xiao Guangrong
2013-11-19 0:19 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-10-23 13:29 ` [PATCH v3 05/15] KVM: MMU: update spte and add it into rmap before dirty log Xiao Guangrong
2013-11-15 0:08 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-10-23 13:29 ` [PATCH v3 06/15] KVM: MMU: redesign the algorithm of pte_list Xiao Guangrong
2013-11-19 0:48 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-10-23 13:29 ` [PATCH v3 07/15] KVM: MMU: introduce nulls desc Xiao Guangrong
2013-11-22 19:14 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-11-25 6:11 ` Xiao Guangrong
2013-11-25 6:29 ` Xiao Guangrong
2013-11-25 18:12 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-11-26 3:21 ` Xiao Guangrong
2013-11-26 10:12 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-11-26 19:31 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-11-28 8:53 ` Xiao Guangrong
2013-12-03 7:10 ` Xiao Guangrong
2013-12-05 13:50 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-12-05 15:30 ` Xiao Guangrong
2013-12-06 0:15 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-12-06 0:22 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-12-10 6:58 ` Xiao Guangrong
2013-11-25 10:19 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-11-25 10:25 ` Xiao Guangrong
2013-11-25 12:48 ` Avi Kivity
2013-11-25 14:23 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-11-25 14:29 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-11-25 18:06 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-11-26 3:10 ` Xiao Guangrong
2013-11-26 10:15 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-11-26 19:58 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-11-28 8:32 ` Xiao Guangrong
2013-11-25 14:08 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-11-26 3:02 ` Xiao Guangrong
2013-11-25 9:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-25 10:59 ` Xiao Guangrong
2013-11-25 11:05 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-25 11:29 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-23 13:29 ` [PATCH v3 08/15] KVM: MMU: introduce pte-list lockless walker Xiao Guangrong
2013-10-23 13:29 ` [PATCH v3 09/15] KVM: MMU: initialize the pointers in pte_list_desc properly Xiao Guangrong
2013-10-23 13:29 ` [PATCH v3 10/15] KVM: MMU: allocate shadow pages from slab Xiao Guangrong
2013-10-24 9:19 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-10-24 9:29 ` Xiao Guangrong
2013-10-24 9:52 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-10-24 10:10 ` Xiao Guangrong
2013-10-24 10:39 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-10-24 11:01 ` Xiao Guangrong
2013-10-24 12:32 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-10-28 3:16 ` Xiao Guangrong
2013-10-23 13:29 ` [PATCH v3 11/15] KVM: MMU: locklessly access shadow page under rcu protection Xiao Guangrong
2013-10-23 13:29 ` [PATCH v3 12/15] KVM: MMU: check last spte with unawareness of mapping level Xiao Guangrong
2013-10-23 13:29 ` [PATCH v3 13/15] KVM: MMU: locklessly write-protect the page Xiao Guangrong
2013-10-24 9:17 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-10-24 9:24 ` Xiao Guangrong
2013-10-24 9:32 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-10-23 13:29 ` [PATCH v3 14/15] KVM: MMU: clean up spte_write_protect Xiao Guangrong
2013-10-23 13:29 ` [PATCH v3 15/15] KVM: MMU: use rcu functions to access the pointer Xiao Guangrong
2013-11-03 12:29 ` [PATCH v3 00/15] KVM: MMU: locklessly write-protect Gleb Natapov
2013-11-11 5:33 ` Xiao Guangrong
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