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Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:27:14 +0200
From: Radim =?utf-8?B?S3LEjW3DocWZ?= <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm: Faults which trigger IO release the mmap_sem
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To: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@google.com>, Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>, Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>, Jianyu Zhan <nasa4836@gmail.com>, Paul Cassella <cassella@cray.com>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Peter Feiner <pfeiner@google.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org

2014-09-17 13:26+0300, Gleb Natapov:
> For async_pf_execute() you do not need to even retry. Next guest's page fault
> will retry it for you.

Wouldn't that be a waste of vmentries?

The guest might be able to handle interrupts while we are waiting, so if
we used async-io-done notifier, this could work without CPU spinning.
(Probably with added latency.)

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