From: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>, Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>,
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
Kanoj Sarcar <kanojsarcar@yahoo.com>,
Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>,
Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, general@lists.openfabrics.org,
Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>,
Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@kvack.org>,
Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 001/001] mmu-notifier-core v17
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 15:01:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080512200113.GA31862@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080509193230.GH7710@duo.random>
On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 09:32:30PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>
>
> With KVM/GFP/XPMEM there isn't just the primary CPU MMU pointing to
> pages. There are secondary MMUs (with secondary sptes and secondary
> tlbs) too. sptes in the kvm case are shadow pagetables, but when I say
> spte in mmu-notifier context, I mean "secondary pte". In GRU case
> there's no actual secondary pte and there's only a secondary tlb
> because the GRU secondary MMU has no knowledge about sptes and every
> secondary tlb miss event in the MMU always generates a page fault that
> has to be resolved by the CPU (this is not the case of KVM where the a
> secondary tlb miss will walk sptes in hardware and it will refill the
>...
FYI, I applied to patch to a tree that has the GRU driver. All regression
tests passed.
--- jack
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-09 19:32 [PATCH 001/001] mmu-notifier-core v17 Andrea Arcangeli, Andrea Arcangeli
2008-05-12 20:01 ` Jack Steiner [this message]
2008-05-16 19:07 ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-06-05 16:51 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-06-03 16:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-03 17:35 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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