Re: [PATCH] KVM: make kvm_mmu_zap_page() return the number of pages it actually freed.

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On 05/06/2010 12:25 PM, Gui Jianfeng wrote:
Avi Kivity wrote:
On 05/05/2010 04:03 AM, Gui Jianfeng wrote:
Currently, kvm_mmu_zap_page() returning the number of freed children sp.
This might confuse the caller, because caller don't know the actual freed
number. Let's make kvm_mmu_zap_page() return the number of pages it
actually
freed.


             if (kvm_mmu_zap_page(kvm, sp))
                 goto restart;

Needs to be updated.
Hi Avi,

if kvm_mmu_zap_page() returns 1, we don't know whether the freed sp is the one we passes into
or the child. So here just restart hash walk as long as kvm_mmu_zap_page() returning a positive
number, although sometimes un-needed hash walk will happen. This fix gets code simpler, the
idea comes from Marcelo.

I see. Note this can invoke quadratic behaviour. I'll apply the patch, but we need to improve this area.

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