Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] KVM: x86/mmu: Skip mmu_notifier changes when possible

2021-02-04 Thread David Stevens
These patches might be responsible for some instability in one of our stress tests. I'll send an update once I figure out what's going on. Thanks, David On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 9:48 PM Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > On 28/01/21 07:05, David Stevens wrote: > > These patches reduce how often mmu_notifie

Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] KVM: x86/mmu: Skip mmu_notifier changes when possible

2021-01-28 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 28/01/21 07:05, David Stevens wrote: These patches reduce how often mmu_notifier updates block guest page faults. The primary benefit of this is the reduction in the likelihood of extreme latency when handling a page fault due to another thread having been preempted while modifying host virtua

[PATCH v3 0/2] KVM: x86/mmu: Skip mmu_notifier changes when possible

2021-01-27 Thread David Stevens
These patches reduce how often mmu_notifier updates block guest page faults. The primary benefit of this is the reduction in the likelihood of extreme latency when handling a page fault due to another thread having been preempted while modifying host virtual addresses. v2 -> v3: - Added patch to