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From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
To: "Xia, Hongyan" <hongyxia@amazon.com>
Cc: "andrew.cooper3@citrix.com" <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
	"Grall, Julien" <jgrall@amazon.com>,
	"xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
	"wl@xen.org" <wl@xen.org>,
	"roger.pau@citrix.com" <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] x86/domain_page: implement pure per-vCPU mapping infrastructure
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 14:31:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c373d061-4a1d-502b-98a3-d40ffa11ba47@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2326943257e6f04bc9a858ef5667295651395c85.camel@amazon.com>

On 21.02.2020 13:52, Xia, Hongyan wrote:
> On Fri, 2020-02-21 at 11:50 +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 06:58:23PM +0000, Hongyan Xia wrote:
>>> +    if ( hashmfn != mfn && !vcache->refcnt[idx] )
>>> +        __clear_bit(idx, vcache->inuse);
>>
>> Also, please flush the linear address here and the other __clear_bit
>> location.
> 
> I flush when a new entry is taking a slot. Yeah, it's probably better
> to flush earlier whenever a slot is no longer in use.

Question is whether such individual flushes aren't actually
more overhead than a single flush covering all previously
torn down entries, done at suitable points (see the present
implementation).

Jan

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-02-21 13:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-06 18:58 [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] x86/domain_page: implement pure per-vCPU mapping infrastructure Hongyan Xia
2020-02-21 11:50 ` Wei Liu
2020-02-21 12:52   ` Xia, Hongyan
2020-02-21 13:02     ` Andrew Cooper
2020-02-21 14:40       ` Xia, Hongyan
2020-02-21 13:31     ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2020-02-21 14:36       ` Wei Liu
2020-02-21 14:55         ` Jan Beulich
2020-02-21 14:58           ` Wei Liu
2020-02-21 15:08             ` Jan Beulich
2020-02-21 14:52       ` Xia, Hongyan
2020-02-21 14:59         ` Jan Beulich
2020-02-21 14:39     ` Wei Liu

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