Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 5/6] x86/mm/tlb: Flush remote and local TLBs concurrently

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 27/05/19 14:32, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 12:21:59PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> On 27/05/19 11:47, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
>>> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
>>> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
>>> @@ -580,7 +580,7 @@ static void __init kvm_apf_trap_init(voi
>>>  
>>>  static DEFINE_PER_CPU(cpumask_var_t, __pv_tlb_mask);
>>>  
>>> -static void kvm_flush_tlb_others(const struct cpumask *cpumask,
>>> +static void kvm_flush_tlb_multi(const struct cpumask *cpumask,
>>>                     const struct flush_tlb_info *info)
>>>  {
>>>     u8 state;
>>> @@ -594,6 +594,9 @@ static void kvm_flush_tlb_others(const s
>>>      * queue flush_on_enter for pre-empted vCPUs
>>>      */
>>>     for_each_cpu(cpu, flushmask) {
>>> +           if (cpu == smp_processor_id())
>>> +                   continue;
>>> +
>>
>> Even this would be just an optimization; the vCPU you're running on
>> cannot be preempted.  You can just change others to multi.
> 
> Yeah, I know, but it felt weird so I added the explicit skip. No strong
> feelings though.

Neither here, and it would indeed deserve a comment if you left the if out.

Paolo


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