From: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>,
Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/17] x86: spec_ctrl: fix SPEC_CTRL initialization after kexec
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 15:27:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190923222734.GP18195@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190923173421.GA13551@redhat.com>
On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 01:34:21PM -0400, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Per subject of the patch, 14 is also an optimization that while not a
> strict requirement, is somewhat related to the monolithic conversion
> because in fact it may naturally disappear if I rename the vmx/svm
> functions directly.
>
> 15 16 17 don't have the monolithic tag in the subject of the patch and
> they're obviously unrelated to the monolithic conversion, but when I
> did the first research on this idea of dropping kvm.ko a couple of
> months ago, things didn't really work well until I got rid of those
> few last retpolines too. If felt as if the large retpoline regression
> wasn't linear with the number of retpolines executed for each vmexit,
> and that it was more linear with the percentage of vmexits that hit on
> any number of retpolines. So while they're not part of the monolithic
> conversion I assumed they're required to run any meaningful benchmark.
>
> I can drop 15 16 17 from further submits of course, after clarifying
> benchmark should be only run on the v1 full set I posted earlier, or
> they wouldn't be meaningful.
I like the patches, I'd just prefer that they be sent in a separate
series so they can churn independently.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-23 22:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-20 21:24 [PATCH 00/17] KVM monolithic v1 Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-20 21:24 ` [PATCH 01/17] x86: spec_ctrl: fix SPEC_CTRL initialization after kexec Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 10:22 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-23 15:30 ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-23 17:34 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 22:27 ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2019-09-20 21:24 ` [PATCH 02/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: convert the kvm_x86_ops methods to external functions Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 10:19 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-23 16:13 ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-23 16:51 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-23 19:21 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-20 21:24 ` [PATCH 03/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: handle the request_immediate_exit variation Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 22:35 ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-23 23:06 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 23:45 ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-24 0:24 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-20 21:24 ` [PATCH 04/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: convert the kvm_pmu_ops methods to external functions Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-20 21:24 ` [PATCH 05/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: enable the kvm_x86_ops " Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-20 21:24 ` [PATCH 06/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: enable the kvm_pmu_ops " Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-20 21:24 ` [PATCH 07/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: adjust the section prefixes Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 10:15 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-25 12:13 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-25 12:32 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-20 21:25 ` [PATCH 08/17] KVM: monolithic: adjust the section prefixes in the KVM common code Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-20 21:25 ` [PATCH 09/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: remove kvm.ko Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-20 21:25 ` [PATCH 10/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: use the external functions instead of kvm_x86_ops Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 10:02 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-20 21:25 ` [PATCH 11/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: remove exports Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-20 21:25 ` [PATCH 12/17] KVM: monolithic: remove exports from KVM common code Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-20 21:25 ` [PATCH 13/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: drop the kvm_pmu_ops structure Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 10:21 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-24 0:51 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-24 1:24 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-20 21:25 ` [PATCH 14/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: inline more exit handlers in vmx.c Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 10:19 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-24 1:00 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-24 1:25 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-24 1:55 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-24 2:56 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-25 7:52 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-20 21:25 ` [PATCH 15/17] KVM: retpolines: x86: eliminate retpoline from vmx.c exit handlers Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 9:31 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2019-09-23 9:57 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-23 19:05 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 20:23 ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-23 21:08 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 21:24 ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-23 23:43 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 23:52 ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-24 0:16 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-24 0:35 ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-24 0:37 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-24 0:15 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-24 0:38 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-24 0:46 ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-24 21:46 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-25 7:50 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-23 16:37 ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-23 16:53 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-23 17:42 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 18:15 ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-23 19:12 ` Andrea Arcangeli
[not found] ` <E8FE7592-69C3-455E-8D80-A2D73BB2E14C@dinechin.org>
2019-09-25 20:51 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 16:28 ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-20 21:25 ` [PATCH 16/17] KVM: retpolines: x86: eliminate retpoline from svm.c " Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 10:01 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-20 21:25 ` [PATCH 17/17] x86: retpolines: eliminate retpoline from msr event handlers Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 15:39 ` [PATCH 00/17] KVM monolithic v1 Sean Christopherson
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