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From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
To: Takuya Yoshikawa <takuya.yoshikawa@gmail.com>
Cc: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa_takuya_b1@lab.ntt.co.jp>,
	mtosatti@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: Don't use vcpu->requests for steal time accounting
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 17:41:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121214154110.GR29003@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121215001208.de27019a1768bbe6b406b6dd@gmail.com>

On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 12:12:08AM +0900, Takuya Yoshikawa wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Dec 2012 13:28:15 +0200
> Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 07:37:18PM +0900, Takuya Yoshikawa wrote:
> > > We can check if accum_steal has any positive value instead of using
> > > KVM_REQ_STEAL_UPDATE bit in vcpu->requests; and this is the way we
> > > usually do for accounting for something in the kernel.
> > > 
> > Now you added check that will be done on each guest entry, requests
> > mechanism prevents that.
> 
> Yes, +1 "if" for the case we have nothing in requests.
> 
Almost any bit in requests can be replaced by one "if". Those
if's add up.

> I'm not sure if setting and clearing a bit for that minor
> optimization is worth it.
> 
Setting/clearing it should be much more rare than guest entry.

--
			Gleb.

      reply	other threads:[~2012-12-14 15:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-14 10:37 [PATCH] KVM: Don't use vcpu->requests for steal time accounting Takuya Yoshikawa
2012-12-14 11:28 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-12-14 15:12   ` Takuya Yoshikawa
2012-12-14 15:41     ` Gleb Natapov [this message]

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