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From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>
To: Nitesh Narayan Lal <nitesh@redhat.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	kvm list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	lcapitulino@redhat.com, pagupta@redhat.com, wei.w.wang@intel.com,
	Yang Zhang <yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
	dodgen@google.com, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
	dhildenb@redhat.com, Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][Patch v9 0/6] KVM: Guest Free Page Hinting
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2019 10:43:26 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKgT0UfC0E6_ZSs5zvkTsH+2LdQuL7fWHqNJQtz+j7BThx5FDA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7a77ce2a-853f-86c6-6d10-1d8db8fb8ae4@redhat.com>

On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 10:41 AM Nitesh Narayan Lal <nitesh@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/6/19 1:38 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 01:30:14PM -0500, Nitesh Narayan Lal wrote:
> >>> Want to try testing Alex's patches for comparison?
> >> Somehow I am not in a favor of doing a hypercall on every page (with
> >> huge TLB order/MAX_ORDER -1) as I think it will be costly.
> >> I can try using Alex's host side logic instead of virtio.
> >> Let me know what you think?
> > I am just saying maybe your setup is misconfigured
> > that's why you see no speedup.
> Got it.
> > If you try Alex's
> > patches and *don't* see speedup like he does, then
> > he might be able to help you figure out why.
> > OTOH if you do then *you* can try figuring out why
> > don't your patches help.
> Yeap, I can do that.
> Thanks.

If I can get your patches up and running I can probably try the same
test I did to see if I am able to reproduce the behavior. It may take
a bit though as I am running into several merge conflicts that I am
having to sort out.

Thanks.

- Alex

  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-06 18:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 84+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-06 15:50 [RFC][Patch v9 0/6] KVM: Guest Free Page Hinting Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-06 15:50 ` [RFC][Patch v9 1/6] KVM: Guest free page hinting support Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-06 23:43   ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-07 19:32     ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-06 15:50 ` [RFC][Patch v9 2/6] KVM: Enables the kernel to isolate guest free pages Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-07 18:30   ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-07 19:23     ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-07 19:30       ` David Hildenbrand
2019-03-07 21:32         ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-07 21:40           ` David Hildenbrand
2019-03-07 22:35             ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-08  2:28               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-03-08  2:32               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-03-08 18:06                 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-08 18:59                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-03-08 19:10                   ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-08 19:25                     ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-08 19:38                       ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-08 21:39                         ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-12 19:46                           ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-12 21:13                             ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-12 21:53                               ` David Hildenbrand
2019-03-12 22:56                                 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-13 11:54                               ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-13 12:17                                 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-03-13 13:08                                   ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-13 16:37                                   ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-13 16:39                                     ` David Hildenbrand
2019-03-13 22:54                                       ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-13 23:18                                         ` David Hildenbrand
2019-03-06 15:50 ` [RFC][Patch v9 3/6] KVM: Enables the kernel to report isolated pages Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-06 21:30   ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-07 13:23     ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-06 15:50 ` [RFC][Patch v9 4/6] KVM: Reporting page poisoning value to the host Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-06 15:50 ` [RFC][Patch v9 5/6] KVM: Enabling guest free page hinting via static key Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-06 15:50 ` [RFC][Patch v9 6/6] KVM: Adding tracepoints for guest free page hinting Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-06 15:52 ` [RFC][QEMU Patch] KVM: Enable QEMU to free the pages hinted by the guest Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-06 23:49   ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-07  0:35     ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-07 12:23       ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-06 16:09 ` [RFC][Patch v9 0/6] KVM: Guest Free Page Hinting Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-03-06 18:07   ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-06 18:12     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-03-06 18:30       ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-06 18:38         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-03-06 18:40           ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-06 18:43             ` Alexander Duyck [this message]
2019-03-06 18:43         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-03-06 18:59           ` David Hildenbrand
2019-03-06 19:08             ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-06 19:18               ` David Hildenbrand
2019-03-06 19:24                 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-06 20:31                   ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-06 20:32             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-03-06 21:40               ` David Hildenbrand
2019-03-06 22:18                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-03-06 23:12                   ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-14 16:42       ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-14 16:58         ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-18 15:57           ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-19 13:33             ` David Hildenbrand
2019-03-19 16:04               ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-19 17:38                 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-19 17:59                   ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-20 13:18                     ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-25 14:27                       ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-25 15:37                         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-03-25 15:42                           ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-06 18:00 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-06 19:07   ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-06 22:05     ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-07 13:09       ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-07 18:45         ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-07 18:53           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-03-07 19:27             ` David Hildenbrand
2019-03-08  2:24               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-03-08 11:53                 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-03-07 21:14             ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-07 21:28               ` David Hildenbrand
2019-03-07 22:19                 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-07 19:45           ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-07 19:49           ` David Hildenbrand
2019-03-07 18:46   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-03-12 19:58     ` David Hildenbrand

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