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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mmu notifiers #v8
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?

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