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From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>,
	Izik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com>,
	kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	general@lists.openfabrics.org,
	Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>,
	Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>,
	Kanoj Sarcar <kanojsarcar@yahoo.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	daniel.blueman@quadrics.com, Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mmu notifiers #v8
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:09:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47CC3EED.7090507@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080303180605.GA3552@sgi.com>

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


  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-03 18:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 115+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-19  8:43 [patch] my mmu notifiers Nick Piggin
2008-02-19  8:44 ` [patch] my mmu notifier sample driver Nick Piggin
2008-02-19 11:59 ` [patch] my mmu notifiers Robin Holt
2008-02-19 13:58 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-19 14:27   ` Jack Steiner
2008-02-19 23:04     ` Nick Piggin
2008-02-20  0:52       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-20  2:46         ` Robin Holt
2008-02-27 22:50     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-19 22:59   ` Nick Piggin
2008-02-20  0:46     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-27 22:55     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-19 23:11   ` Nick Piggin
2008-02-19 23:40     ` Jack Steiner
2008-02-21  4:42       ` Nick Piggin
2008-02-22 16:31         ` Jack Steiner
2008-02-20  1:09     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-20 10:39       ` [PATCH] mmu notifiers #v6 Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-20 10:45         ` [PATCH] KVM swapping (+ seqlock fix) with " Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-27 22:06           ` [PATCH] KVM swapping with mmu notifiers #v7 Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-28  8:42             ` izik eidus
2008-02-20 11:33         ` [PATCH] mmu notifiers #v6 Robin Holt
2008-02-20 12:03           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-20 12:24             ` Robin Holt
2008-02-20 12:32               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-20 13:15                 ` Robin Holt
2008-02-21  5:02             ` Nick Piggin
2008-02-20 14:41         ` Robin Holt
2008-02-20 15:34           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-20 21:03         ` Jack Steiner
2008-02-21  4:54         ` Nick Piggin
2008-02-21 14:40           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-21 16:10             ` Jack Steiner
2008-02-27 19:26               ` [PATCH] mmu notifiers #v7 Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-27 20:04                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-02-27 23:06                 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-27 23:43                   ` [kvm-devel] " Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-28  0:08                     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-28  0:21                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-28  0:24                         ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-28 19:48                 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-28 21:52                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-28 22:00                     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-28 23:17                     ` Jack Steiner
2008-02-29  0:24                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-29  1:13                         ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-28 23:05                 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-29  0:40                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-29  0:56                     ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-29  1:03                     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-29 13:09                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-29 19:46                         ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-02 15:54                 ` [PATCH] mmu notifiers #v8 Andrea Arcangeli
2008-03-02 16:03                   ` [PATCH] mmu notifiers #v8 + xpmem Andrea Arcangeli
2008-03-02 16:23                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-03-03  3:29                   ` [PATCH] mmu notifiers #v8 Nick Piggin
2008-03-03 12:51                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-03-03 13:10                       ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-03 13:24                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-03-03 15:18                         ` Jack Steiner
2008-03-03 16:59                           ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-03 18:06                             ` Jack Steiner
2008-03-03 18:09                               ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-03-03 18:23                                 ` Jack Steiner
2008-03-03 18:45                               ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-03 19:15                                 ` Jack Steiner
2008-03-04 10:35                                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-03-04 14:44                                     ` Jack Steiner
2008-03-03 19:02                             ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-03 19:01                     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-03 21:15                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-03-05  0:37                       ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-05 18:48                         ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-06  2:59                           ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-03  3:33                   ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-03 19:03                     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-03  3:34                   ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-03 19:04                     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-03  3:39                   ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-03 21:37                   ` [PATCH] mmu notifiers #v9 Andrea Arcangeli
2008-03-03 22:05                     ` [PATCH] KVM swapping with " Andrea Arcangeli
2008-03-04  0:44                       ` izik eidus
2008-03-04  7:31                         ` [RFC] Notifier for Externally Mapped Memory (EMM) Christoph Lameter
2008-03-04  7:34                           ` [Early draft] Conversion of i_mmap_lock to semaphore Christoph Lameter
2008-03-04 13:30                           ` [RFC] Notifier for Externally Mapped Memory (EMM) Andrea Arcangeli
2008-03-04 19:00                             ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-04 22:20                               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-03-04 22:35                                 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-04 22:42                                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-03-04 23:14                                     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-04 23:25                                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-03-04 23:30                                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-03-05  5:09                                     ` Avi Kivity
2008-03-05  9:47                                       ` Robin Holt
2008-03-05  9:53                                         ` Avi Kivity
2008-03-05 10:02                                         ` [kvm-devel] " Dor Laor
2008-03-07 15:17                                   ` [PATCH] 2/4 move all invalidate_page outside of PT lock (#v9 was 1/4) Andrea Arcangeli
2008-03-07 15:23                                     ` [PATCH] 3/4 combine RCU with seqlock to allow mmu notifier methods to sleep " Andrea Arcangeli
2008-03-07 15:52                                       ` [PATCH] 4/4 i_mmap_lock spinlock2rwsem " Andrea Arcangeli
2008-03-07 20:03                                         ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-19 21:27                                         ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-07 16:52                                       ` [PATCH] 3/4 combine RCU with seqlock to allow mmu notifier methods to sleep " Peter Zijlstra
2008-03-07 17:50                                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-03-07 18:01                                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-03-07 18:45                                             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-03-07 19:47                                               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-03-07 20:15                                                 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-07 20:12                                               ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-07 20:10                                           ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-07 20:00                                       ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-07 19:54                                     ` [PATCH] 2/4 move all invalidate_page outside of PT lock " Christoph Lameter
2008-03-04 13:21                         ` [PATCH] KVM swapping with mmu notifiers #v9 Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-21  4:47       ` [patch] my mmu notifiers Nick Piggin
2008-02-20  2:49     ` Robin Holt
2008-02-27 22:56     ` Christoph Lameter

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