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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu,
	a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com,
	cl@linux-foundation.org, mtosatti@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 08/12] Handle async PF in a guest.
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:48:17 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CAE07E1.5050701@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CAE00CB.1070400@redhat.com>

On 10/07/2010 01:18 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 10/07/2010 07:14 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:

>> Host side keeps track of outstanding apfs and will not send apf for the
>> same phys address twice. It will halt vcpu instead.
>
> What about different pages, running the scheduler code?
>
> Oh, and we'll run the scheduler recursively.

When preempt is disabled in the guest, it will not invoke
the "reschedule for apf" code, but it will simply turn
into a normal page fault.

Last I looked, the scheduler code disabled preempt (for
obvious reasons).

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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu,
	a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com,
	cl@linux-foundation.org, mtosatti@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 08/12] Handle async PF in a guest.
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:48:17 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CAE07E1.5050701@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CAE00CB.1070400@redhat.com>

On 10/07/2010 01:18 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 10/07/2010 07:14 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:

>> Host side keeps track of outstanding apfs and will not send apf for the
>> same phys address twice. It will halt vcpu instead.
>
> What about different pages, running the scheduler code?
>
> Oh, and we'll run the scheduler recursively.

When preempt is disabled in the guest, it will not invoke
the "reschedule for apf" code, but it will simply turn
into a normal page fault.

Last I looked, the scheduler code disabled preempt (for
obvious reasons).

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-07 17:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 176+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-04 15:56 [PATCH v6 00/12] KVM: Add host swap event notifications for PV guest Gleb Natapov
2010-10-04 15:56 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-04 15:56 ` [PATCH v6 01/12] Add get_user_pages() variant that fails if major fault is required Gleb Natapov
2010-10-04 15:56   ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-04 15:56 ` [PATCH v6 02/12] Halt vcpu if page it tries to access is swapped out Gleb Natapov
2010-10-04 15:56   ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-05  1:20   ` Rik van Riel
2010-10-05  1:20     ` Rik van Riel
2010-10-05 14:59   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-05 14:59     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-06 10:50     ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-06 10:50       ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-06 10:52       ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-06 10:52         ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-07  9:54         ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-07  9:54           ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-07 17:48           ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-07 17:48             ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-06 11:15     ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-06 11:15       ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-07  9:50   ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-07  9:50     ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-07  9:52     ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-07  9:52       ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-07 13:24     ` Rik van Riel
2010-10-07 13:24       ` Rik van Riel
2010-10-07 13:29       ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-07 13:29         ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-07 17:47     ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-07 17:47       ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-09 18:30       ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-09 18:30         ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-09 18:32         ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-09 18:32           ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-10  7:30           ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-10  7:30             ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-10  7:29         ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-10  7:29           ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-10 15:55           ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-10 15:55             ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-10 15:56             ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-10 15:56               ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-10 16:17               ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-10 16:17                 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-10 16:16             ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-10 16:16               ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-04 15:56 ` [PATCH v6 03/12] Retry fault before vmentry Gleb Natapov
2010-10-04 15:56   ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-05 15:54   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-05 15:54     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-06 11:07     ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-06 11:07       ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-06 14:20       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-06 14:20         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-07 18:44         ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-07 18:44           ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-08 16:07           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-08 16:07             ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-07 12:29   ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-07 12:29     ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-07 17:21     ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-07 17:21       ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-09 18:42       ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-09 18:42         ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-10  7:35         ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-10  7:35           ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-04 15:56 ` [PATCH v6 04/12] Add memory slot versioning and use it to provide fast guest write interface Gleb Natapov
2010-10-04 15:56   ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-05  1:29   ` Rik van Riel
2010-10-05  1:29     ` Rik van Riel
2010-10-05 16:57   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-05 16:57     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-06 11:14     ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-06 11:14       ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-06 14:38       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-06 14:38         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-06 20:08         ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-06 20:08           ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-07 10:00           ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-07 10:00             ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-07 15:42             ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-07 15:42               ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-07 16:03               ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-07 16:03                 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-07 16:20                 ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-07 16:20                   ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-07 17:23                   ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-07 17:23                     ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-10 12:48                     ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-10 12:48                       ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-07 12:31   ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-07 12:31     ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-04 15:56 ` [PATCH v6 05/12] Move kvm_smp_prepare_boot_cpu() from kvmclock.c to kvm.c Gleb Natapov
2010-10-04 15:56   ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-04 15:56 ` [PATCH v6 06/12] Add PV MSR to enable asynchronous page faults delivery Gleb Natapov
2010-10-04 15:56   ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-07 12:42   ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-07 12:42     ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-07 17:53     ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-07 17:53       ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-10 12:47       ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-10 12:47         ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-10 13:27         ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-10 13:27           ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-07 12:58   ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-07 12:58     ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-07 17:59     ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-07 17:59       ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-09 18:43       ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-09 18:43         ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-04 15:56 ` [PATCH v6 07/12] Add async PF initialization to PV guest Gleb Natapov
2010-10-04 15:56   ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-05  2:34   ` Rik van Riel
2010-10-05  2:34     ` Rik van Riel
2010-10-05 18:25   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-05 18:25     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-06 10:55     ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-06 10:55       ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-06 14:45       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-06 14:45         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-06 20:05         ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-06 20:05           ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-07 12:50   ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-07 12:50     ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-08  7:54     ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-08  7:54       ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-09 18:44       ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-09 18:44         ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-04 15:56 ` [PATCH v6 08/12] Handle async PF in a guest Gleb Natapov
2010-10-04 15:56   ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-07 13:10   ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-07 13:10     ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-07 17:14     ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-07 17:14       ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-07 17:18       ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-07 17:18         ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-07 17:48         ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2010-10-07 17:48           ` Rik van Riel
2010-10-07 18:03         ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-07 18:03           ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-09 18:48           ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-09 18:48             ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-10  7:56             ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-10  7:56               ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-10 12:40               ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-10 12:40                 ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-10 12:32     ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-10 12:32       ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-10 12:38       ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-10 12:38         ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-10 13:22         ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-10 13:22           ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-04 15:56 ` [PATCH v6 09/12] Inject asynchronous page fault into a PV guest if page is swapped out Gleb Natapov
2010-10-04 15:56   ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-05  2:36   ` Rik van Riel
2010-10-05  2:36     ` Rik van Riel
2010-10-05 19:00   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-05 19:00     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-06 10:42     ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-06 10:42       ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-04 15:56 ` [PATCH v6 10/12] Handle async PF in non preemptable context Gleb Natapov
2010-10-04 15:56   ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-05 19:51   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-05 19:51     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-06 10:41     ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-06 10:41       ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-10 14:25       ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-10 14:25         ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-04 15:56 ` [PATCH v6 11/12] Let host know whether the guest can handle async PF in non-userspace context Gleb Natapov
2010-10-04 15:56   ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-07 13:36   ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-07 13:36     ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-04 15:56 ` [PATCH v6 12/12] Send async PF when guest is not in userspace too Gleb Natapov
2010-10-04 15:56   ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-05  2:37   ` Rik van Riel
2010-10-05  2:37     ` Rik van Riel

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