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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: mtosatti@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] KVM: x86: avoid unnecessary bitmap allocation when memslot is clean
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:27:39 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BD80D9B.3090102@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BD7B6F2.9010105@oss.ntt.co.jp>

On 04/28/2010 07:17 AM, Takuya Yoshikawa wrote:
> (2010/04/27 22:46), Takuya Yoshikawa wrote:
>> (2010/04/27 22:18), Avi Kivity wrote:
>>
>>>> Furthermore, the reduced allocations seem to produce good effects for
>>>> other cases too. Actually, I observed that the time for the ioctl was
>>>> more stable than the original one and the average time for dirty slots
>>>> was also reduced by some extent.
>>>
>>> Can you explain why the dirty slots were improved?
>>
>> I cannot do exactly, but vmalloc() might affect the following 
>> allocations?
>>
>
>
> Oh, this might be the effect of tlb flush or something?
>  - I'm not so confident about mm, but vmalloc(),vfree() does this kind 
> of thing?

Yes, vmalloc() does tlb flushes, perhaps that's the cause.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-28 10:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-26  9:56 [PATCH 0/1] KVM: x86: avoid unnecessary bitmap allocation when memslot is clean Takuya Yoshikawa
2010-04-26  9:58 ` [PATCH 1/1] " Takuya Yoshikawa
2010-04-27 12:36   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-04-27 13:18   ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-27 13:46     ` Takuya Yoshikawa
2010-04-28  4:17       ` Takuya Yoshikawa
2010-04-28 10:27         ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2010-04-28 10:26       ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-28  9:50 ` [PATCH v2] " Takuya Yoshikawa
2010-05-04  9:36   ` Avi Kivity

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