On Fri, Feb 01, 2019 at 10:02:30PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > On Thu 31-01-19 11:10:06, Jerome Glisse wrote: > > > > Andrew what is your plan for this ? I had a discussion with Peter Xu > > and Andrea about change_pte() and kvm. Today the change_pte() kvm > > optimization is effectively disabled because of invalidate_range > > calls. With a minimal couple lines patch on top of this patchset > > we can bring back the kvm change_pte optimization and we can also > > optimize some other cases like for instance when write protecting > > after fork (but i am not sure this is something qemu does often so > > it might not help for real kvm workload). > > > > I will be posting a the extra patch as an RFC, but in the meantime > > i wanted to know what was the status for this. > > > > Jan, Christian does your previous ACK still holds for this ? > > Yes, I still think the approach makes sense. Dan's concern about in tree > users is valid but it seems you have those just not merged yet, right? (Catching up on email) This version included some of the first users for this but i do not want to merge them through Andrew but through the individual driver project tree. Also in the meantime i found a use for this with kvm and i expect few others users of mmu notifier will leverage this extra informations. Cheers, Jérôme _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
