On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 03:44:06PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Using RCU for lockless shadow walking can increase the amount of memory
> in use by the system, since RCU grace periods are unpredictable.  We also
> have an unconditional write to a shared variable (reader_counter), which
> isn't good for scaling.
> 
> Replace that with a scheme similar to x86's get_user_pages_fast(): disable
> interrupts during lockless shadow walk to force the freer
> (kvm_mmu_commit_zap_page()) to wait for the TLB flush IPI to find the
> processor with interrupts enabled.
> 
> We also add a new vcpu->mode, READING_SHADOW_PAGE_TABLES, to prevent
> kvm_flush_remote_tlbs() from avoiding the IPI.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <[email protected]>

Applied, thanks.

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