Re: [Qemu-devel] tcg: reworking tb_invalidated_flag

[Sergey Fedorov]

On 31/03/16 16:37, Alex Bennée wrote:
> Sergey Fedorov <address@hidden> writes:
>> Looks like no matter which approach we use, it's ultimately necessary to
>> ensure all CPUs have exited from translated code before the translation
>> buffer may be safely flushed.
> One approach would be to have multiple translation contexts with their
> own buffers and then you can safely flush TBs if no vCPUs are currently
> executing in those regions. But I suspect that is a much more complex
> future optimisation.

Yes, this is much more complex and its performance impact should be
investigated.

> Having said that is it safe to flush TBs from a given page if we know
> no vCPUs are currently executing in that page? As the execution loop has
> to exit the chained TBs as we cross page boundaries we could just keep
> account of which vCPUs are currently in which page.

It should be safe to invalidate a TB while some other CPU is executing
its translated code. But it should be guaranteed that no CPU execute any
old TB after tb_flush() since we're going to start reusing those TBs.

I see how TB cannot be patched if it spans two pages, is there any on
when TCG goto_tb can be generated?

Kind regards,
Sergey