Re: [PATCH 2/2] KVM: Convert read-only users of vm_list to RCU

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On 02/10/2011 02:56 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
What's the benefit? The downside is a bit more complexity as you need an
additional callback handler.


synchronize_rcu() can be very slow (its a systemwide operation), and mmu_shrink() can be called often on a loaded system.


In fact this just shows that vm_list is not a good candidate for rcu; rcu is useful where most operations are reads, but if we discount stats, most operations on vm_list are going to be writes.

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