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SubjectRe: [tip:x86/mm] x86/mm/tlb: Make lazy TLB mode lazier
On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 01:22:19PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > On Jul 18, 2018, at 12:00 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> > Also, I don't suppose you've looked at the paravirt instances of
> > flush_tlb_other() ? They don't elide the flushes because of lazy.
>
> Let me look at those now :)

<snip xen>

> kvm_flush_tlb_other takes out preempted VCPUs from the flush mask,
> before calling native_flush_tlb_others, so it should get the optimization
> automatically.

Ah, ok. I wasn't entirely sure the new lazy was purely for the idle
case. But yes, the KVM paravirt thing should get the idle case right.

> Hyperv does ... sad magic.

Yeah,.. it got us to switch to 'rcu' freeing of page-tables and enabled
the kvm thing though, so that all is good :-)

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