From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marcelo Tosatti Subject: [patch 0/5] unify remote request and kvm_vcpu_kick IPI mechanism Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:20:00 -0300 Message-ID: <20090827012000.762063112@localhost.localdomain> To: kvm@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:38391 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754556AbZH0Bbn (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:31:43 -0400 Received: from int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.16]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n7R1Vjli024419 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:31:45 -0400 Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n7R1Vini010995 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:31:44 -0400 Received: from amt.cnet (vpn-51-10.sfbay.redhat.com [10.14.51.10]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n7R1VgbB024681 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:31:43 -0400 Received: from amt.cnet (amt.cnet [127.0.0.1]) by amt.cnet (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CC40588158 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:31:02 -0300 (BRT) Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Unify remote request (TLB_FLUSH and MMU_RELOAD) with kvm_vcpu_kick mechanism. The new wait_on_bit based scheme also allows finer optimization of different request types, and makes future enhancements easier (such as request to a single vcpu, or subset of vcpus). kernel compilation is 2.5 - 3% faster with shadow paging. See individual patches for details. --