Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 12:09:29 -0300
From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
To: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, avi.kivity@gmail.com,
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        takuya.yoshikawa@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 4/6] KVM: MMU: fast invalid all shadow pages
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On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 05:56:08PM +0300, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > > Yes, I am missing what Marcelo means there too. We cannot free memslot
> > > until we unmap its rmap one way or the other.
> > 
> > I do not understand what are you optimizing for, given the four possible
> > cases we discussed at
> > 
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/18/280
> > 
> We are optimizing mmu_lock holding time for all of those cases.
> 
> But you cannot just "zap roots + sp gen number increase." on slot
> deletion because you need to transfer access/dirty information from rmap
> that is going to be deleted to actual page before
> kvm_set_memory_region() returns to a caller.
> 
> > That is, why a simple for_each_all_shadow_page(zap_page) is not sufficient.
> With a lock break? It is. We tried to optimize that by zapping only pages
> that reference memslot that is going to be deleted and zap all other
> later when recycling old sps, but if you think this is premature
> optimization I am fine with it.

If it can be shown that its not premature optimization, I am fine with
it.

AFAICS all cases are 1) rare and 2) not latency sensitive (as in there
is no requirement for those cases to finish in a short period of time).

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