Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 00/17] Alternative Meltdown mitigation

2018-02-13 Thread Juergen Gross
On 13/02/18 15:16, Jan Beulich wrote: On 13.02.18 at 12:36, wrote: >> On 12/02/18 18:54, Dario Faggioli wrote: >>> On Fri, 2018-02-09 at 15:01 +0100, Juergen Gross wrote: This series is available via github: https://github.com/jgross1/xen.git xpti Dario wants to do so

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 00/17] Alternative Meltdown mitigation

2018-02-13 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 13.02.18 at 12:36, wrote: > On 12/02/18 18:54, Dario Faggioli wrote: >> On Fri, 2018-02-09 at 15:01 +0100, Juergen Gross wrote: >>> This series is available via github: >>> >>> https://github.com/jgross1/xen.git xpti >>> >>> Dario wants to do some performance tests for this series to compar

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 00/17] Alternative Meltdown mitigation

2018-02-13 Thread Juergen Gross
On 12/02/18 18:54, Dario Faggioli wrote: > On Fri, 2018-02-09 at 15:01 +0100, Juergen Gross wrote: >> This series is available via github: >> >> https://github.com/jgross1/xen.git xpti >> >> Dario wants to do some performance tests for this series to compare >> performance with Jan's series with al

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 00/17] Alternative Meltdown mitigation

2018-02-12 Thread Dario Faggioli
On Fri, 2018-02-09 at 15:01 +0100, Juergen Gross wrote: > This series is available via github: > > https://github.com/jgross1/xen.git xpti > > Dario wants to do some performance tests for this series to compare > performance with Jan's series with all optimizations posted. > And some of this is

[Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 00/17] Alternative Meltdown mitigation

2018-02-09 Thread Juergen Gross
This patch series is meant to be used instead of the "XPTI-light" Meltdown mitigation of Jan. It is using a different approach by using a shadow of the guest's L4 page table and keeping those in a cache in order to avoid the need to create the shadow multiple times. I'll name my approach "XPTI" in