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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH v1 3/5] KVM: Add paravirt kvm_flush_tlb_others
On 05/01/2012 06:11 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-05-01 at 15:12 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> > We're now moving the freeing of kvm shadow page tables from using rcu to
> > using an irq-protected scheme like gup_fast(), because of the
> > performance differences. We didn't track it down but I expect the cause
> > is less reuse of cache-hot pages.
>
> It would be good to understand these things.. just doing things because
> tends to come back and bite you :-)

Agree. Anyway that was only part of the motivation, the other part was
establishing a bound on the number of pages under deferred freeing.

> If its cache behaviour you should be able to clearly see that using perf
> stat.

It's hard to see it clearly because the changes are in the order of 1-2%
in a very noisy benchmark.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function



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