linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 9/9] KVM: VMX: automatic PLE window maximum

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Message-ID: <53F4BFF3.3060606@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 20 Aug 2014 17:34:11 +0200
From:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:	Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>
CC:	kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Gleb Natapov <gleb@...nel.org>,
	Raghavendra KT <raghavendra.kt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Vinod Chegu <chegu_vinod@...com>, Hui-Zhi <hui-zhi.zhao@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/9] KVM: VMX: automatic PLE window maximum

Il 20/08/2014 17:31, Radim Krčmář ha scritto:
> Btw. without extra code, we are still going to overflow on races when
> changing PW_grow, should they be covered as well?

You mean because there is no spinlock or similar protecting the changes?
 I guess you could use a seqlock.

Paolo
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