linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 01/13] KVM: x86: Cache total page count to avoid traversing the memslot array

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Date:   Wed, 3 Nov 2021 16:38:10 +0100
From:   "Maciej S. Szmigiero" <mail@...iej.szmigiero.name>
To:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
Cc:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Igor Mammedov <imammedo@...hat.com>,
        Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Julien Thierry <julien.thierry.kdev@...il.com>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
        Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@...nel.org>,
        Aleksandar Markovic <aleksandar.qemu.devel@...il.com>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...abs.org>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
        Janosch Frank <frankja@...ux.ibm.com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Cornelia Huck <cohuck@...hat.com>,
        Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 01/13] KVM: x86: Cache total page count to avoid
 traversing the memslot array

On 03.11.2021 15:47, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 03, 2021, Maciej S. Szmigiero wrote:
>> Capping total n_memslots_pages makes sense to me to avoid the (existing)
>> nr_mmu_pages wraparound issue, will update the next patchset version
>> accordingly.
> 
> No need to do it yourself.  I have a reworked version of the series with a bunch
> of cleanups before and after the meat of your series, as well non-functional changes
> (hopefully) to the "Resolve memslot ID via a hash table" and "Keep memslots in
> tree-based structures" to avoid all the swap() behavior and to provide better
> continuity between the aforementioned patches.  Unless something goes sideways in
> the last few touchups, I'll get it posted today.
> 

Thanks.