From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
To: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: jeremy@goop.org, gregkh@suse.de, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, riel@redhat.com,
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habanero@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>,
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linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, srivatsa.vaddagiri@gmail.com,
attilio.rao@citrix.com, pbonzini@redhat.com,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC V9 0/19] Paravirtualized ticket spinlocks
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 13:11:04 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130711101104.GF8575@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51DE849E.4020405@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 03:40:38PM +0530, Raghavendra K T wrote:
> >>>>Gleb,
> >>>>Can you elaborate little more on what you have in mind regarding per
> >>>>VM ple_window. (maintaining part of it as a per vm variable is clear
> >>>>to
> >>>> me), but is it that we have to load that every time of guest entry?
> >>>>
> >>>Only when it changes, shouldn't be to often no?
> >>
> >>Ok. Thinking how to do. read the register and writeback if there need
> >>to be a change during guest entry?
> >>
> >Why not do it like in the patch you've linked? When value changes write it
> >to VMCS of the current vcpu.
> >
>
> Yes. can be done. So the running vcpu's ple_window gets updated only
> after next pl-exit. right?
I am not sure what you mean. You cannot change vcpu's ple_window while
vcpu is in a guest mode.
--
Gleb.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-11 10:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 84+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-01 19:21 [PATCH RFC V9 0/19] Paravirtualized ticket spinlocks Raghavendra K T
2013-06-01 19:21 ` [PATCH RFC V9 1/19] x86/spinlock: Replace pv spinlocks with pv ticketlocks Raghavendra K T
2013-06-01 20:32 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2013-06-02 6:54 ` Raghavendra K T
2013-06-01 19:22 ` [PATCH RFC V9 2/19] x86/ticketlock: Don't inline _spin_unlock when using paravirt spinlocks Raghavendra K T
2013-06-03 15:28 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-06-01 19:22 ` [PATCH RFC V9 3/19] x86/ticketlock: Collapse a layer of functions Raghavendra K T
2013-06-03 15:28 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-06-01 19:22 ` [PATCH RFC V9 4/19] xen: Defer spinlock setup until boot CPU setup Raghavendra K T
2013-06-01 19:23 ` [PATCH RFC V9 5/19] xen/pvticketlock: Xen implementation for PV ticket locks Raghavendra K T
2013-06-03 16:03 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-06-04 7:21 ` Raghavendra K T
2013-06-01 19:23 ` [PATCH RFC V9 6/19] xen/pvticketlocks: Add xen_nopvspin parameter to disable xen pv ticketlocks Raghavendra K T
2013-06-01 19:23 ` [PATCH RFC V9 7/19] x86/pvticketlock: Use callee-save for lock_spinning Raghavendra K T
2013-06-01 19:24 ` [PATCH RFC V9 8/19] x86/pvticketlock: When paravirtualizing ticket locks, increment by 2 Raghavendra K T
2013-06-03 15:53 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-06-01 19:24 ` [PATCH RFC V9 9/19] Split out rate limiting from jump_label.h Raghavendra K T
2013-06-03 15:56 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-06-04 7:15 ` Raghavendra K T
2013-06-01 19:24 ` [PATCH RFC V9 10/19] x86/ticketlock: Add slowpath logic Raghavendra K T
2013-06-01 19:24 ` [PATCH RFC V9 11/19] xen/pvticketlock: Allow interrupts to be enabled while blocking Raghavendra K T
2013-06-01 19:25 ` [PATCH RFC V9 12/19] xen: Enable PV ticketlocks on HVM Xen Raghavendra K T
2013-06-03 15:57 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-06-04 7:16 ` Raghavendra K T
2013-06-04 14:44 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-06-04 15:00 ` Raghavendra K T
2013-06-01 19:25 ` [PATCH RFC V9 13/19] kvm hypervisor : Add a hypercall to KVM hypervisor to support pv-ticketlocks Raghavendra K T
2013-06-01 19:25 ` [PATCH RFC V9 14/19] kvm : Fold pv_unhalt flag into GET_MP_STATE ioctl to aid migration Raghavendra K T
2013-06-01 19:25 ` [PATCH RFC V9 15/19] kvm guest : Add configuration support to enable debug information for KVM Guests Raghavendra K T
2013-06-01 19:25 ` [PATCH RFC V9 16/19] kvm : Paravirtual ticketlocks support for linux guests running on KVM hypervisor Raghavendra K T
2013-06-03 16:00 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-06-04 7:19 ` Raghavendra K T
2013-06-01 19:26 ` [PATCH RFC V9 17/19] kvm hypervisor : Simplify kvm_for_each_vcpu with kvm_irq_delivery_to_apic Raghavendra K T
2013-06-01 19:26 ` [PATCH RFC V9 18/19] Documentation/kvm : Add documentation on Hypercalls and features used for PV spinlock Raghavendra K T
2013-06-03 16:04 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-06-04 7:22 ` Raghavendra K T
2013-06-01 19:26 ` [PATCH RFC V9 19/19] kvm hypervisor: Add directed yield in vcpu block path Raghavendra K T
2013-06-03 16:05 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-06-04 7:28 ` Raghavendra K T
2013-06-02 8:07 ` [PATCH RFC V9 0/19] Paravirtualized ticket spinlocks Gleb Natapov
2013-06-02 16:20 ` Jiannan Ouyang
2013-06-03 1:40 ` Raghavendra K T
2013-06-03 6:21 ` Raghavendra K T
2013-06-07 6:15 ` Raghavendra K T
2013-06-07 13:29 ` Andrew Theurer
2013-06-07 23:41 ` Jiannan Ouyang
2013-06-25 14:50 ` Andrew Theurer
2013-06-26 8:45 ` Raghavendra K T
2013-06-26 11:37 ` Andrew Jones
2013-06-26 12:52 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-06-26 13:40 ` Raghavendra K T
2013-06-26 14:39 ` Chegu Vinod
2013-06-26 15:37 ` Raghavendra K T
2013-06-26 16:11 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-06-26 17:54 ` Raghavendra K T
2013-07-09 9:11 ` Raghavendra K T
2013-07-10 10:33 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-07-10 10:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-10 10:47 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-07-10 11:28 ` Raghavendra K T
2013-07-10 11:29 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-07-10 11:40 ` Raghavendra K T
2013-07-10 15:03 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-07-10 15:16 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-07-11 0:12 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-07-10 11:24 ` Raghavendra K T
2013-07-10 11:41 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-07-10 11:50 ` Raghavendra K T
2013-07-11 9:13 ` Raghavendra K T
2013-07-11 9:48 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-07-11 10:10 ` Raghavendra K T
2013-07-11 10:11 ` Gleb Natapov [this message]
2013-07-11 10:53 ` Raghavendra K T
2013-07-11 10:56 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-07-11 11:14 ` Raghavendra K T
2013-06-26 14:13 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-06-26 15:56 ` Andrew Theurer
2013-07-01 9:30 ` Raghavendra K T
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-06-01 8:21 Raghavendra K T
2013-06-01 19:21 ` Raghavendra KT
2013-06-01 20:14 ` Andi Kleen
2013-06-01 20:28 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2013-06-01 20:46 ` Andi Kleen
2013-06-04 10:58 ` Raghavendra K T
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