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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	xen-devel <Xen-devel@lists.xen.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	KVM list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] x86/msr: Carry on after a non-"safe" MSR access fails without !panic_on_oops
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 11:32:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <560C2AA0.5040708@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFzKCi6pf0RP8HjDQYDsms6reB5AihuCAHEkVJtoOHk_Yw@mail.gmail.com>

On 09/21/2015 09:36 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> How many msr reads are <i>so</i> critical that the function call
> overhead would matter? Get rid of the inline version of the _safe()
> thing too, and put that thing there too.
> 

Probably only the ones that may go in the context switch path.

	-hpa

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-09-30 18:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-21  0:02 [PATCH v2 0/2] x86/msr: MSR access failure changes Andy Lutomirski
2015-09-21  0:02 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] x86/msr: Carry on after a non-"safe" MSR access fails without !panic_on_oops Andy Lutomirski
2015-09-21  0:02 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-09-21  0:15   ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-21  1:13     ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-09-21  8:46       ` Ingo Molnar
2015-09-21 12:27         ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-09-21 12:27         ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-09-21 16:36         ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-21 16:49           ` Arjan van de Ven
2015-09-21 17:27             ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-21 17:27             ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-21 17:43             ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-09-22  8:12               ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-09-22  8:12               ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-09-21 17:43             ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-09-21 16:49           ` Arjan van de Ven
2015-09-21 18:16           ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-09-21 18:36             ` Borislav Petkov
2015-09-21 18:36             ` Borislav Petkov
2015-09-21 18:47             ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-21 18:47             ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-21 18:16           ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-09-22  7:14           ` Ingo Molnar
2015-09-22  7:14           ` Ingo Molnar
2015-09-30 13:10           ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-30 13:10           ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-30 14:01             ` Ingo Molnar
2015-09-30 14:01             ` Ingo Molnar
2015-09-30 18:04               ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-09-30 18:04               ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-10-01  7:15                 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-03-11 16:48                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-03-11 16:48                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-03-12 16:02                     ` Ingo Molnar
2016-03-12 16:02                     ` Ingo Molnar
2015-10-01  7:15                 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-09-30 18:32           ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-09-30 18:32           ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2015-09-21 16:36         ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-21  8:46       ` Ingo Molnar
2015-09-21  1:13     ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-09-21  0:15   ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-21  0:02 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] x86/msr: Set the return value to zero when native_rdmsr_safe fails Andy Lutomirski
2015-09-21  0:02 ` Andy Lutomirski

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