Re: [PATCH 15/24] kvm: mmu: Wrap mmu_lock cond_resched and needbreak

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Tue Jan 26 2021 - 13:15:57 EST


On 26/01/21 18:47, Ben Gardon wrote:
Enough that it motivated me to implement this more complex union
scheme. While the difference was pronounced in the dirty log perf test
microbenchmark, it's an open question as to whether it would matter in
practice.

I'll look at getting some numbers if it's just the dirty log perf test. Did you see anything in the profile pointing specifically at rwlock?

Paolo