Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757541AbYCCSLY (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Mar 2008 13:11:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759704AbYCCSJ5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Mar 2008 13:09:57 -0500 Received: from bzq-179-150-194.static.bezeqint.net ([212.179.150.194]:58261 "EHLO il.qumranet.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758671AbYCCSJ4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Mar 2008 13:09:56 -0500 Message-ID: <47CC3EED.7090507@qumranet.com> Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:09:49 +0200 From: Avi Kivity User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071115) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jack Steiner CC: Nick Piggin , Andrea Arcangeli , akpm@linux-foundation.org, Robin Holt , Izik Eidus , kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Peter Zijlstra , general@lists.openfabrics.org, Steve Wise , Roland Dreier , Kanoj Sarcar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, daniel.blueman@quadrics.com, Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH] mmu notifiers #v8 References: <20080221045430.GC15215@wotan.suse.de> <20080221144023.GC9427@v2.random> <20080221161028.GA14220@sgi.com> <20080227192610.GF28483@v2.random> <20080302155457.GK8091@v2.random> <20080303032934.GA3301@wotan.suse.de> <20080303125152.GS8091@v2.random> <20080303131017.GC13138@wotan.suse.de> <20080303151859.GA19374@sgi.com> <20080303165910.GA23998@wotan.suse.de> <20080303180605.GA3552@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20080303180605.GA3552@sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 949 Lines: 22 Jack Steiner wrote: > The range invalidates have a performance advantage for the GRU. TLB invalidates > on the GRU are relatively slow (usec) and interfere somewhat with the performance > of other active GRU instructions. Invalidating a large chunk of addresses with > a single GRU TLBINVAL operation is must faster than issuing a stream of single > page TLBINVALs. > > I expect this performance advantage will also apply to other users of mmuops. > In theory this would apply to kvm as well (coalesce tlb flush IPIs, lookup shadow page table once), but is it really a fast path? What triggers range operations for your use cases? -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/