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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 2/2] xen: implement VCPUOP_register_runstate_phys_memory_area





On 16/05/2019 14:30, Andrii Anisov wrote:
Hello Jan,

On 16.05.19 15:09, Jan Beulich wrote:
On 23.04.19 at 10:10, <andrii.anisov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
--- a/xen/include/xen/sched.h
+++ b/xen/include/xen/sched.h
@@ -163,15 +163,23 @@ struct vcpu
      void            *sched_priv;    /* scheduler-specific data */
      struct vcpu_runstate_info runstate;
+
+    spinlock_t      mapped_runstate_lock;

Besides other comments given elsewhere already - does this
really need to be a per-vCPU lock? Guests aren't expected to
invoke the API frequently, so quite likely a per-domain lock
would suffice. Quite possibly domain_{,un}lock() could
actually be (re-)used.

I'd not use a per-domain lock here. This lock will be locked on every runstate area update, what's happening on every context switch. And the event of simultaneous switching of several vcpus from the same domain has quite high probability.

The lock can be completely removed anyway. See my previous comments.

Cheers,

--
Julien Grall

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