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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Ashish Kalra <Ashish.Kalra@amd.com>
Cc: tglx@kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v13 5/5] x86/sev: Re-enable RMP optimizations on SNP guest shutdown
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2026 10:24:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260906172415.GSap2hv9Aa16O_tL31@fat_crate.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e8a8d0ec63bda2db61cde7cf298a4ccb6a502c20.1788296083.git.ashish.kalra@amd.com>

On Wed, Sep 02, 2026 at 09:29:21PM +0000, Ashish Kalra wrote:
> +		/*
> +		 * Perform RMP optimizations on memory freed by terminating
> +		 * guests.  The scan is deferred, so it normally runs after
> +		 * sev_gmem_invalidate() has converted this guest's pages back to
> +		 * shared, and picks them up then.  A very large guest whose
> +		 * conversion has not finished by then is picked up by a later
> +		 * teardown's scan.
> +		 */

Move that comment over the function definition.

> +/*
> + * Delay, in milliseconds, before the RMP re-optimization pass runs after an
> + * SNP guest is torn down.  snp_rmpopt_all_physmem() re-arms the delayed work
> + * with mod_delayed_work() on each teardown, so the pass fires this long after
> + * the last teardown.  This coalesces a burst of teardowns into a single scan
> + * and gives each guest's pages time to be converted back to the shared,
> + * hypervisor-owned state before the scan re-optimizes their 1GB regions.  The
> + * 10 second value is a heuristic trading re-optimization latency against
> + * scanning too eagerly.
> + */

Simplify:

"Delay, in milliseconds, before the RMP re-optimization pass runs after an SNP
guest is torn down, passed as the delay to mod_delayed_work(). This coalesces
a burst of teardowns into a single scan and gives each guest's pages time to
be converted back to the shared, hypervisor-owned state. The 10 second value
is a heuristic trading re-optimization latency against scanning too eagerly."


> +#define RMPOPT_WORK_TIMEOUT	(10 * MSEC_PER_SEC)

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette

      parent reply	other threads:[~2026-09-06 17:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-02 21:27 [PATCH v13 0/5] Add RMPOPT support Ashish Kalra
2026-09-02 21:27 ` [PATCH v13 1/5] x86/cpufeatures: Add X86_FEATURE_RMPOPT feature flag Ashish Kalra
2026-09-02 21:28 ` [PATCH v13 2/5] x86/sev: Disable CPU hotplug while SNP is active Ashish Kalra
2026-09-02 21:28 ` [PATCH v13 3/5] x86/sev: Initialize RMPOPT configuration MSRs Ashish Kalra
2026-09-02 21:28 ` [PATCH v13 4/5] x86/sev: Add support to perform RMP optimizations asynchronously Ashish Kalra
2026-09-02 21:36   ` Dave Hansen
2026-09-05  1:29   ` Borislav Petkov
2026-09-08 20:21     ` Kalra, Ashish
2026-09-09  1:52       ` Borislav Petkov
2026-09-09 13:55         ` Kalra, Ashish
2026-09-02 21:29 ` [PATCH v13 5/5] x86/sev: Re-enable RMP optimizations on SNP guest shutdown Ashish Kalra
2026-09-02 21:37   ` Dave Hansen
2026-09-06 17:24   ` Borislav Petkov [this message]

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