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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 1/6] libnvdimm: nd_region flush callback supp
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Dan Williams |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 1/6] libnvdimm: nd_region flush callback support |
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Thu, 18 Apr 2019 09:05:05 -0700 |
On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 6:12 AM Jeff Moyer <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Jan Kara <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > On Thu 11-04-19 07:51:48, Dan Williams wrote:
> >> On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 9:09 PM Pankaj Gupta <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> > + } else {
> >> > + if (nd_region->flush(nd_region))
> >> > + rc = -EIO;
> >>
> >> Given the common case wants to be fast and synchronous I think we
> >> should try to avoid retpoline overhead by default. So something like
> >> this:
> >>
> >> if (nd_region->flush == generic_nvdimm_flush)
> >> rc = generic_nvdimm_flush(...);
> >
> > I'd either add a comment about avoiding retpoline overhead here or just
> > make ->flush == NULL mean generic_nvdimm_flush(). Just so that people don't
> > get confused by the code.
>
> Isn't this premature optimization? I really don't like adding things
> like this without some numbers to show it's worth it.
I don't think it's premature given this optimization technique is
already being deployed elsewhere, see:
https://lwn.net/Articles/774347/
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 0/6] virtio pmem driver, Pankaj Gupta, 2019/04/10
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 1/6] libnvdimm: nd_region flush callback support, Pankaj Gupta, 2019/04/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 1/6] libnvdimm: nd_region flush callback support, Jan Kara, 2019/04/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 1/6] libnvdimm: nd_region flush callback support, Jeff Moyer, 2019/04/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 1/6] libnvdimm: nd_region flush callback support, Pankaj Gupta, 2019/04/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 1/6] libnvdimm: nd_region flush callback support,
Dan Williams <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 1/6] libnvdimm: nd_region flush callback support, Jeff Moyer, 2019/04/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 1/6] libnvdimm: nd_region flush callback support, Christoph Hellwig, 2019/04/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 1/6] libnvdimm: nd_region flush callback support, Dan Williams, 2019/04/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 1/6] libnvdimm: nd_region flush callback support, Jeff Moyer, 2019/04/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 1/6] libnvdimm: nd_region flush callback support, Dan Williams, 2019/04/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 1/6] libnvdimm: nd_region flush callback support, Jeff Moyer, 2019/04/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 1/6] libnvdimm: nd_region flush callback support, Pankaj Gupta, 2019/04/23
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 4/6] dax: check synchronous mapping is supported, Pankaj Gupta, 2019/04/10