On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 10:10:04PM +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote: > > > Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > >>>> > >>>> It reads the 16 aligned items around sptep's corresponding gpte and this > >>>> gpte > >>>> is also in this area. :-) > >>> But you removed that in patch 8? > >>> > >> Oh, i just want it good for review, you mean it's better let patch 7 and 8 > >> in one patch? > > > > I mean patch 7 is wrong because it removes rereading of gpte, with > > mmu_lock held, in the prefetch patch. > > > > Marcelo, > > Sorry, i don't understand it clearly. > > In the patch 7, we read gpte like this: > > hold mmu_lock > atomic read gpte during guest mapping's checking in 'fetch' path > atomic read 16 aligned items chunk (include gpte) in pte_prefetch path > release mmu_lock > > And in the patch 8, we do it like this: > hold mmu_lock > > atomic read 16 aligned items chunk (include gpte) in 'fetch' path, and > saved this chunk to gw->prefetch_ptes > > get gptes form gw->prefetch_ptes in pte_prefetch path > > release mmu_lock > > Could you please tell me where is wrong?
You're right. Patchset looks good to me. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
