From: Sergey Fedorov <serge.fdrv@gmail.com>
To: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>,
"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: mttcg@greensocs.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
fred konrad <fred.konrad@greensocs.com>,
a rigo <a.rigo@virtualopensystems.com>,
cota@braap.org, bobby prani <bobby.prani@gmail.com>,
mark burton <mark.burton@greensocs.com>,
jan kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>,
rth@twiddle.net, peter maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
claudio fontana <claudio.fontana@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/7] Safe watch and breakpoint manipulation
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 21:16:20 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <576832F4.5080202@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8737o7su4z.fsf@linaro.org>
On 20/06/16 19:27, Alex Bennée wrote:
> The watchpoint contention is the biggest one. FWIW I like the RCU
> approach because it is low impact when running (and I'm hoping faster as
> well by not being a linked list).
When can we expect any contention? I generally find the idea of RCU
really great, but in this particular case, I'm afraid, it could give us
less profit (performance) than pain (complexity).
> It's not a major problem in system mode because generally the system is
> halted when changes are made to the list. However I'd like to solve it
> properly for both system and user-mode so I can then forgot about
> another special case.
Could you please explain a bit more about problems in user-mode?
Thanks,
Sergey
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-20 18:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-17 16:33 [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/7] Safe watch and breakpoint manipulation Alex Bennée
2016-06-17 16:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 1/7] cpu: move break/watchpoints into arrays Alex Bennée
2016-06-17 17:03 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-06-17 16:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 2/7] exec: keep CPUWatchpoint references internal Alex Bennée
2016-06-17 17:17 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-06-17 16:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 3/7] exec: keep CPUBreakpoint " Alex Bennée
2016-06-17 16:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 4/7] break/watchpoints: store inside array Alex Bennée
2016-06-17 17:15 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-06-17 16:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 5/7] breakpoints: put breakpoints under RCU control Alex Bennée
2016-06-17 16:59 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-06-17 16:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 6/7] linux-user: don't clone watchpoints Alex Bennée
2016-06-17 17:18 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-06-17 16:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 7/7] watchpoints: put watchpoints under RCU control Alex Bennée
2016-06-17 17:10 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-06-17 17:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/7] Safe watch and breakpoint manipulation Paolo Bonzini
2016-06-20 13:55 ` Sergey Fedorov
2016-06-20 14:25 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-06-20 15:23 ` Sergey Fedorov
2016-06-20 15:49 ` Sergey Fedorov
2016-06-20 16:08 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-06-20 16:27 ` Alex Bennée
2016-06-20 18:16 ` Sergey Fedorov [this message]
2016-06-20 18:19 ` Sergey Fedorov
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