Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 0/7] xen/x86: various XPTI speedups

2018-03-23 Thread Dario Faggioli
On Wed, 2018-03-21 at 13:51 +0100, Juergen Gross wrote: > On my machine (Intel i7-4600M) using the PCID feature in the non-XPTI > case showed a slightly worse performance than using global pages > instead (using PCID and global pages is a bad idea as invalidating > global pages in this case would

[Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 0/7] xen/x86: various XPTI speedups

2018-03-21 Thread Juergen Gross
This patch series aims at reducing the overhead of the XPTI Meltdown mitigation. It is based on Jan's XPTI speedup series. Patch 1 had been posted before, the main changes in this patch are due to addressing Jan's comments on my first version. The main objective of that patch is to avoid copying