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2020-11-15KVM: selftests: always use manual clear in dirty_log_perf_testPaolo Bonzini
Nothing sets USE_CLEAR_DIRTY_LOG anymore, so anything it surrounds is dead code. However, it is the recommended way to use the dirty page bitmap for new enough kernel, so use it whenever KVM has the KVM_CAP_MANUAL_DIRTY_LOG_PROTECT2 capability. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2020-11-09KVM: selftests: allow two iterations of dirty_log_perf_testPaolo Bonzini
Even though one iteration is not enough for the dirty log performance test (due to the cost of building page tables, zeroing memory etc.) two is okay and it is the default. Without this patch, "./dirty_log_perf_test" without any further arguments fails. Cc: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2020-11-08KVM: selftests: Introduce the dirty log perf testBen Gardon
The dirty log perf test will time verious dirty logging operations (enabling dirty logging, dirtying memory, getting the dirty log, clearing the dirty log, and disabling dirty logging) in order to quantify dirty logging performance. This test can be used to inform future performance improvements to KVM's dirty logging infrastructure. This series was tested by running the following invocations on an Intel Skylake machine: dirty_log_perf_test -b 20m -i 100 -v 64 dirty_log_perf_test -b 20g -i 5 -v 4 dirty_log_perf_test -b 4g -i 5 -v 32 demand_paging_test -b 20m -v 64 demand_paging_test -b 20g -v 4 demand_paging_test -b 4g -v 32 All behaved as expected. Signed-off-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com> Message-Id: <20201027233733.1484855-6-bgardon@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>