Re: [PATCH V2 3/10] KVM/MMU: Add last_level in the struct mmu_spte_page

[Tianyu Lan]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 11:23 PM Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 15/02/19 16:05, Tianyu Lan wrote:
> > Yes, you are right. Thanks to point out and will fix. The last_level
> > flag is to avoid adding middle page node(e.g, PGD, PMD)
> > into flush list. The address range will be duplicated if adding both
> > leaf, node and middle node into flush list.
>
> Hmm, that's not easy to track.  One kvm_mmu_page could include both leaf
> and non-leaf page (for example a huge page for 0 to 2 MB and a page
> table for 2 MB to 4 MB).
>
> Is this really needed?  First, your benchmarks so far have been done
> with sp->last_level always set to true.  Second, you would only
> encounter this optimization in kvm_mmu_commit_zap_page when zapping a 1
> GB region (which then would be invalidated twice, at both the PMD and
> PGD level) or bigger.
>
> Paolo

Hi Paolo:
             Sorry for later response and I tried to figure out a bug
lead by defining wrong
max flush count. I just sent out V3. I still put the last_level flag
patch in the end of patchset.
Detail please see the change log. Just like you said this was an
optimization and wasn't 100%
required. If you still have some concerns, you can ignore it and other
patches in this patchset
should be good. Thanks.

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Best regards
Tianyu Lan