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SubjectRe: [PATCH v12 00/18] KVM: s390: pv: implement lazy destroy for reboot
On 6/28/22 15:56, Claudio Imbrenda wrote:
> Previously, when a protected VM was rebooted or when it was shut down,
> its memory was made unprotected, and then the protected VM itself was
> destroyed. Looping over the whole address space can take some time,
> considering the overhead of the various Ultravisor Calls (UVCs). This
> means that a reboot or a shutdown would take a potentially long amount
> of time, depending on the amount of used memory.
>
> This patchseries implements a deferred destroy mechanism for protected
> guests. When a protected guest is destroyed, its memory can be cleared
> in background, allowing the guest to restart or terminate significantly
> faster than before.
>

Patches 1-12 have spent a considerable amount of time in the CI and I'd
like to queue them to be able to focus on the rest of the series.

Patch 9 will need two small fixups since there are two conflicts where a
line was introduced before your addition of the include and the struct
kvm_s390_pv mmu_notifier member. I.e. it's more of a patch history
problem than a real conflict.

I'd fix that up when queuing if you're ok with it?

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