[PATCH V2 3/10] KVM/MMU: Add last_level in the struct mmu_spte_page

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 15/02/19 16:05, Tianyu Lan wrote:
> Yes, you are right. Thanks to point out and will fix. The last_level
> flag is to avoid adding middle page node(e.g, PGD, PMD)
> into flush list. The address range will be duplicated if adding both
> leaf, node and middle node into flush list.

Hmm, that's not easy to track.  One kvm_mmu_page could include both leaf
and non-leaf page (for example a huge page for 0 to 2 MB and a page
table for 2 MB to 4 MB).

Is this really needed?  First, your benchmarks so far have been done
with sp->last_level always set to true.  Second, you would only
encounter this optimization in kvm_mmu_commit_zap_page when zapping a 1
GB region (which then would be invalidated twice, at both the PMD and
PGD level) or bigger.

Paolo