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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Nitesh Narayan Lal <nitesh@redhat.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	pbonzini@redhat.com, lcapitulino@redhat.com, pagupta@redhat.com,
	wei.w.wang@intel.com, yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com, riel@surriel.com,
	dodgen@google.com, konrad.wilk@oracle.com, dhildenb@redhat.com,
	aarcange@redhat.com, Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][Patch v8 0/7] KVM: Guest Free Page Hinting
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 11:49:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190218114601-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <af4430fd-0a2c-8f35-b767-3f93fc6db270@redhat.com>

On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 10:40:15AM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> It would be worth a try. My feeling is that a synchronous report after
> e.g. 512 frees should be acceptable, as it seems to be acceptable on
> s390x. (basically always enabled, nobody complains).

What slips under the radar on an arch like s390 might
raise issues for a popular arch like x86. My fear would be
if it's only a problem e.g. for realtime. Then you get
a condition that's very hard to trigger and affects
worst case latencies.

But really what business has something that is supposedly
an optimization blocking a VCPU? We are just freeing up
lots of memory why is it a good idea to slow that
process down?

-- 
MST

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-02-18 16:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 116+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-04 20:18 [RFC][Patch v8 0/7] KVM: Guest Free Page Hinting Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-02-04 20:18 ` [RFC][Patch v8 1/7] KVM: Support for guest free page hinting Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-02-05  4:14   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-05 13:06     ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-02-05 16:27       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-05 16:34         ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-02-04 20:18 ` [RFC][Patch v8 2/7] KVM: Enabling guest free page hinting via static key Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-02-08 18:07   ` Alexander Duyck
2019-02-08 18:22     ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-02-04 20:18 ` [RFC][Patch v8 3/7] KVM: Guest free page hinting functional skeleton Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-02-04 20:18 ` [RFC][Patch v8 4/7] KVM: Disabling page poisoning to prevent corruption Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-02-07 17:23   ` Alexander Duyck
2019-02-07 17:56     ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-02-07 18:24       ` Alexander Duyck
2019-02-07 19:14         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-07 21:08   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-04 20:18 ` [RFC][Patch v8 5/7] virtio: Enables to add a single descriptor to the host Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-02-05 20:49   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-06 12:56     ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-02-06 13:15       ` Luiz Capitulino
2019-02-06 13:24         ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-02-06 13:29           ` Luiz Capitulino
2019-02-06 14:05             ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-02-06 18:03       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-06 18:19         ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-02-04 20:18 ` [RFC][Patch v8 6/7] KVM: Enables the kernel to isolate and report free pages Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-02-05 20:45   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-05 21:54     ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-02-05 21:55       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-07 17:43         ` Alexander Duyck
2019-02-07 19:01           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-07 20:50           ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-02-08 17:58             ` Alexander Duyck
2019-02-08 20:41               ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-02-08 21:38                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-08 22:05                   ` Alexander Duyck
2019-02-10  0:38                     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-11  9:28                       ` David Hildenbrand
2019-02-12  5:16                         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-12 17:10                       ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-02-08 21:35               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-04 20:18 ` [RFC][Patch v8 7/7] KVM: Adding tracepoints for guest page hinting Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-02-04 20:20 ` [RFC][QEMU PATCH] KVM: Support for guest free " Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-02-12  9:03 ` [RFC][Patch v8 0/7] KVM: Guest Free Page Hinting Wang, Wei W
2019-02-12  9:24   ` David Hildenbrand
2019-02-12 17:24     ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-02-12 19:34       ` David Hildenbrand
2019-02-13  8:55     ` Wang, Wei W
2019-02-13  9:19       ` David Hildenbrand
2019-02-13 12:17         ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-02-13 17:09           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-13 17:22             ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
     [not found]               ` <286AC319A985734F985F78AFA26841F73DF6F1C3@shsmsx102.ccr.corp.intel.com>
2019-02-14  9:34                 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-02-13 17:16         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-13 17:59           ` David Hildenbrand
2019-02-13 19:08             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-14  9:08         ` Wang, Wei W
2019-02-14 10:00           ` David Hildenbrand
2019-02-14 10:44             ` David Hildenbrand
2019-02-15  9:15             ` Wang, Wei W
2019-02-15  9:33               ` David Hildenbrand
2019-02-13  9:00 ` Wang, Wei W
2019-02-13 12:06   ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-02-14  8:48     ` Wang, Wei W
2019-02-14  9:42       ` David Hildenbrand
2019-02-15  9:05         ` Wang, Wei W
2019-02-15  9:41           ` David Hildenbrand
2019-02-18  2:36             ` Wei Wang
2019-02-18  2:39               ` Wei Wang
2019-02-15 12:40           ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-02-14 13:00       ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-02-16  9:40 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-02-18 15:50   ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-02-18 16:02     ` David Hildenbrand
2019-02-18 16:49   ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2019-02-18 16:59     ` David Hildenbrand
2019-02-18 17:31       ` Alexander Duyck
2019-02-18 17:41         ` David Hildenbrand
2019-02-18 23:47           ` Alexander Duyck
2019-02-19  2:45             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-19  2:46             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-02-19 12:52               ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-02-19 16:23               ` Alexander Duyck
2019-02-19  8:06             ` David Hildenbrand
2019-02-19 14:40               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-19 14:44                 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-02-19 14:45                   ` David Hildenbrand
2019-02-18 18:01         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-18 17:54       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-18 18:29         ` David Hildenbrand
2019-02-18 19:16           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-18 19:35             ` David Hildenbrand
2019-02-18 19:47               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-18 20:04                 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-02-18 20:31                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-18 20:40                     ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-02-18 21:04                       ` David Hildenbrand
2019-02-19  0:01                         ` Alexander Duyck
2019-02-19  7:54                           ` David Hildenbrand
2019-02-19 18:06                             ` Alexander Duyck
2019-02-19 18:31                               ` David Hildenbrand
2019-02-19 21:57                                 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-02-19 22:17                                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-19 22:36                                   ` David Hildenbrand
2019-02-19 19:58                               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-19 20:02                                 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-02-19 20:17                                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-19 20:21                                     ` David Hildenbrand
2019-02-19 20:35                                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-19 12:47                         ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-02-19 13:03                           ` David Hildenbrand
2019-02-19 14:17                             ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-02-19 14:21                               ` David Hildenbrand
2019-02-18 20:53                     ` David Hildenbrand
2019-02-23  0:02 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-02-25 13:01   ` Nitesh Narayan Lal

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