On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 02:48:37PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 8:11 AM, Xiao Guangrong > <xiaoguangr...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > > > > On Nov 23, 2013, at 3:14 AM, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosa...@redhat.com> wrote: > > <snip complicated stuff about parent_pte> > > I'm not really following, but note that parent_pte predates EPT (and > the use of rcu in kvm), so all the complexity that is the result of > trying to pack as many list entries into a cache line can be dropped. > Most setups now would have exactly one list entry, which is handled > specially antyway. > > Alternatively, the trick of storing multiple entries in one list entry > can be moved to generic code, it may be useful to others.
Yes, can the lockless list walking code be transformed into generic single-linked list walking? So the correctness can be verified independently, and KVM becomes a simple user of that interface. The simpler version is to maintain lockless walk on depth-1 rmap entries (and grab the lock once depth-2 entry is found). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
