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From: avanbrunt@nvidia.com (Alexander Van Brunt)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] arm64: alternative:flush cache with unpatched code
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2018 17:07:54 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1528218506299.33619@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180605165511.GB2193@arm.com>

> 1. Boot. This happens once, and we end up putting *all* secondary cores into
>    a tight loop anyway, so I don't see that the performance of
>    __flush_icache_all is relevant

Native boot happens once. But, each VM that boots will slow down all of the other VM's on the system. A VM boot can happen thousands of times.

I really don't want to cause the whole system to hiccup for a millisecond or more when there are only a few cache lines that need to be invalidated.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-05 17:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-29 18:11 [PATCH] arm64: alternative:flush cache with unpatched code Rohit Khanna
2018-05-30  9:00 ` Will Deacon
2018-05-31 17:45   ` Rohit Khanna
2018-06-04  9:16     ` Will Deacon
2018-06-04 19:34       ` Alexander Van Brunt
2018-06-05 16:55         ` Will Deacon
2018-06-05 17:07           ` Alexander Van Brunt [this message]
2018-06-06 15:44             ` Will Deacon
2018-06-06 16:16               ` Alexander Van Brunt
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-06-02  0:39 Rohit Khanna
2018-05-31 20:37 Rohit Khanna
2018-06-01  9:03 ` Mark Rutland
2018-06-01 19:52   ` Rohit Khanna
2018-06-01 21:43     ` Rohit Khanna
2018-06-04  9:01     ` Mark Rutland
2018-05-22 18:07 Rohit Khanna
2018-05-23  9:06 ` Will Deacon
2018-05-22  1:27 Rohit Khanna
2018-05-22 15:09 ` Suzuki K Poulose
2018-05-22 18:08   ` Rohit Khanna

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