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From: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
To: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
	Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
	Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>,
	Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>,
	David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>,
	Jing Zhang <jingzhangos@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] KVM: x86/mmu: Add detailed page size stats
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2021 15:26:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALMp9eR4AB0O7__VwGNbnm-99Pp7fNssr8XGHpq+6Pwkpo_oAw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210803044607.599629-4-mizhang@google.com>

On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 9:46 PM Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com> wrote:
>
> Existing KVM code tracks the number of large pages regardless of their
> sizes. Therefore, when large page of 1GB (or larger) is adopted, the
> information becomes less useful because lpages counts a mix of 1G and 2M
> pages.
>
> So remove the lpages since it is easy for user space to aggregate the info.
> Instead, provide a comprehensive page stats of all sizes from 4K to 512G.

There is no such thing as a 512GiB page, is there? If this is an
attempt at future-proofing, why not go to 256TiB?

  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-09 22:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-03  4:46 [PATCH v4 0/3] Add detailed page size stats in KVM stats Mingwei Zhang
2021-08-03  4:46 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] KVM: x86/mmu: Remove redundant spte present check in mmu_set_spte Mingwei Zhang
2021-08-03  4:46 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] KVM: x86/mmu: Avoid collision with !PRESENT SPTEs in TDP MMU lpage stats Mingwei Zhang
2021-08-03  4:46 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] KVM: x86/mmu: Add detailed page size stats Mingwei Zhang
2021-08-09 22:26   ` Jim Mattson [this message]
2021-08-09 23:39     ` Mingwei Zhang
2021-08-10  0:01       ` Mingwei Zhang
2021-08-10 23:22         ` Peter Xu
2021-08-11  1:06           ` Mingwei Zhang
2021-08-11 13:12             ` Peter Xu
2021-08-12 17:44               ` Mingwei Zhang
2021-08-11 11:36   ` Paolo Bonzini

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