Re: [RFC] need to improve slot creation/destruction? -- Re: [RFC][PATCH] srcu: Implement call_srcu()

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On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:08:12PM +0900, Takuya Yoshikawa wrote:
> Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On 02/09/2012 04:23 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> > > > BTW do we really need fast slot creation/destruction?
> > >
> > > Not really, but it's good to have infrastructure that copes with
> > > different workloads.  If the patches keep the code simple I think it's a
> > > good thing to have.
> 
> My patch is pretty simple.
> 
> > To qualify - taking several tens of milliseconds is out of the question
> > as some workloads grind to a halt.  But it doesn't need to be incredibly
> > fast.
> 
> I think the problem is not how long it takes to create/invalidate a slot
> but following faults and shadow pages reconstruction.

The problem which is immediatelly visible is kvm_set_mem performance.

> 	Similar to mmu shrinker problem we discussed before.
> 
> E.g. users will not expect sudden latency induced by pci hotplug.
> 
> 	Takuya
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