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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: dave@gnu.org
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>, KVM <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: invalidate vpid for invlpg instruction
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2012 12:11:30 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50447442.2050307@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1346628440.3170.3.camel@offbook>

On 09/03/2012 02:27 AM, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-08-31 at 14:37 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 06:10:48PM +0200, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
>> > For processors that support VPIDs we should invalidate the page table entry
>> > specified by the lineal address. For this purpose add support for individual
>> > address invalidations.
>> 
>> Not necessary - a single context invalidation is performed through
>> KVM_REQ_TLB_FLUSH.
> 
> Since vpid_sync_context() supports both single and all-context vpid
> invalidations, wouldn't it make sense to also add individual address
> ones as well, supporting further granularity?

It might.  Do you have benchmarks supporting this?

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

  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-03  9:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-31 16:10 [PATCH] KVM: VMX: invalidate vpid for invlpg instruction Davidlohr Bueso
2012-08-31 17:37 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-09-02 23:27   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2012-09-03  9:11     ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2012-09-05 21:54       ` Davidlohr Bueso
2012-09-06  8:05         ` Avi Kivity

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