From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: "Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>,
"Wanpeng Li" <wanpeng.li@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Liang Chen <liangchen.linux@gmail.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Using the tlb flush util function where applicable
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:06:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54196B1A.3000208@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140917104551.GA31476@potion.brq.redhat.com>
Il 17/09/2014 12:45, Radim Krčmář ha scritto:
> a) count local KVM_REQ_TLB_FLUSH requests
> b) count all TLB flushes
> c) both (a) and (b)
>
> I was thinking that when you look at /sys/kernel/debug/kvm/tlb_flushes,
> you are interested in the number of TLB flushes that VMs did, not
> requests, so you won't have to add remote_tlb_flushes multiplied by
> maximal vcpu count and guess their amount from this upper bound.
I agree. The difference isn't too big, but if two requests are
coalesced they will only cause a hit once.
Paolo
> And that we don't even care about requests, so (c) is just complication.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-17 11:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-12 21:06 [PATCH] Using the tlb flush util function where applicable Liang Chen
2014-09-15 19:33 ` Radim Krčmář
2014-09-15 22:49 ` Liang Chen
2014-09-16 8:56 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-17 0:15 ` Wanpeng Li
2014-09-17 10:45 ` Radim Krčmář
2014-09-17 11:06 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
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