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authorJay Zhou <jianjay.zhou@huawei.com>2020-02-27 09:32:27 +0800
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2020-03-16 17:57:37 +0100
commit3c9bd4006bfc2dccda1823db61b3f470ef91cfaa (patch)
tree914a3fee54c7c102dfa8b6fd289cd1d18b6db19c /init/init_task.c
parent0be44352071dc87a4f9bf879642b1d44876971d9 (diff)
KVM: x86: enable dirty log gradually in small chunks
It could take kvm->mmu_lock for an extended period of time when enabling dirty log for the first time. The main cost is to clear all the D-bits of last level SPTEs. This situation can benefit from manual dirty log protect as well, which can reduce the mmu_lock time taken. The sequence is like this: 1. Initialize all the bits of the dirty bitmap to 1 when enabling dirty log for the first time 2. Only write protect the huge pages 3. KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG returns the dirty bitmap info 4. KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY_LOG will clear D-bit for each of the leaf level SPTEs gradually in small chunks Under the Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6152 CPU @ 2.10GHz environment, I did some tests with a 128G windows VM and counted the time taken of memory_global_dirty_log_start, here is the numbers: VM Size Before After optimization 128G 460ms 10ms Signed-off-by: Jay Zhou <jianjay.zhou@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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