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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: "Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm: x86: disable KVM_FAST_MMIO_BUS
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 10:17:10 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1530586086.975916.1502893030374.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170816170329-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org>


> We actually know what to expect (a write) so we could maybe
> optimize this some more with a dedicated function just for this.

We don't know the addressing mode, the size or the source (immediate
vs. register), so no.

KVM is already doing a single translation and read no matter how long
the instruction (unless it cross page boundaries).

Paolo

> > 
> > However, the eventfd is written before decoding, while full emulation
> > would write it after. So while VCPU thread latency is worse compared to
> > skip_emulated_instruction, latency to the iothread remains small.
> > 
> > Paolo
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-16 14:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-16 11:22 [PATCH] kvm: x86: disable KVM_FAST_MMIO_BUS Paolo Bonzini
2017-08-16 12:07 ` Radim Krčmář
2017-08-16 13:37   ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-08-16 14:06     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-08-16 14:17       ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2017-08-17  8:15   ` David Hildenbrand
2017-08-16 12:58 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-08-16 13:05   ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-08-16 13:16     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-08-16 13:30       ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-08-16 14:03         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-08-16 16:50         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-08-16 17:19           ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-08-16 19:03             ` Radim Krčmář
2017-08-16 19:59               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-08-16 21:25                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-08-16 22:31                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-08-17  9:00                     ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-08-17 12:14                       ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-08-17 13:23                         ` Radim Krčmář
2017-08-17 15:15                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-08-17 13:51                     ` Radim Krčmář
2017-08-17 15:27                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-08-16 19:47             ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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