On 16.09.2021 19:52, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 16/09/2021 13:30, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> On 16.09.2021 13:10, Dmitry Isaikin wrote:
>>> From: Dmitry Isaykin <[email protected]>
>>>
>>> This significantly speeds up concurrent destruction of multiple domains on 
>>> x86.
>> This effectively is a simplistic revert of 228ab9992ffb ("domctl:
>> improve locking during domain destruction"). There it was found to
>> actually improve things;
> 
> Was it?  I recall that it was simply an expectation that performance
> would be better...

My recollection is that it was, for one of our customers.

> Amazon previously identified 228ab9992ffb as a massive perf hit, too.

Interesting. I don't recall any mail to that effect.

> Clearly some of the reasoning behind 228ab9992ffb was flawed and/or
> incomplete, and it appears as if it wasn't necessarily a wise move in
> hindsight.

Possible; I continue to think though that the present observation wants
properly understanding instead of more or less blindly undoing that
change.

Jan


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