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Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2015 14:10:51 +0800
From: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@...ux.intel.com>
To: Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@...ux.intel.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm: mmu: lazy collapse small sptes into large sptes
On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 12:25:14PM +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
>
>
>On 03/30/2015 07:48 AM, Wanpeng Li wrote:
>>There are two scenarios for the requirement of collapsing small sptes
>>into large sptes.
>>- dirty logging tracks sptes in 4k granularity, so large sptes are splitted,
>> the large sptes will be reallocated in the destination machine and the
>> guest in the source machine will be destroyed when live migration successfully.
>> However, the guest in the source machine will continue to run if live migration
>> fail due to some reasons, the sptes still keep small which lead to bad
>> performance.
>>- our customers write tools to track the dirty speed of guests by EPT D bit/PML
>> in order to determine the most appropriate one to be live migrated, however
>> sptes will still keep small after tracking dirty speed.
>>
>>This patch introduce lazy collapse small sptes into large sptes, the memory region
>>will be scanned on the ioctl context when dirty log is stopped, the ones which can
>>be collapsed into large pages will be dropped during the scan, it depends the on
>>later #PF to reallocate all large sptes.
>>
>>Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@...ux.intel.com>
>>---
>> arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 2 ++
>> arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 66 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 5 ++++
>> 3 files changed, 73 insertions(+)
>>
>>diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
>>index a236e39..73de5d3 100644
>>--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
>>+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
>>@@ -859,6 +859,8 @@ void kvm_mmu_set_mask_ptes(u64 user_mask, u64 accessed_mask,
>> void kvm_mmu_reset_context(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
>> void kvm_mmu_slot_remove_write_access(struct kvm *kvm,
>> struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot);
>>+void kvm_mmu_zap_collapsible_sptes(struct kvm *kvm,
>>+ struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot);
>> void kvm_mmu_slot_leaf_clear_dirty(struct kvm *kvm,
>> struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot);
>> void kvm_mmu_slot_largepage_remove_write_access(struct kvm *kvm,
>>diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
>>index cee7592..d25ced1 100644
>>--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
>>+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
>>@@ -4465,6 +4465,72 @@ void kvm_mmu_slot_remove_write_access(struct kvm *kvm,
>> kvm_flush_remote_tlbs(kvm);
>> }
>>
>>+static int kvm_mmu_zap_collapsible_spte(struct kvm *kvm,
>>+ unsigned long *rmapp)
>
>Can use 'bool' instead of 'int'. You used 'bool' in
>kvm_mmu_zap_collapsible_sptes anyway.
>
>>+{
>>+ u64 *sptep;
>>+ struct rmap_iterator iter;
>>+ int need_tlb_flush = 0;
>>+ pfn_t pfn;
>>+ struct kvm_mmu_page *sp;
>>+
>>+ for (sptep = rmap_get_first(*rmapp, &iter); sptep;) {
>>+ BUG_ON(!(*sptep & PT_PRESENT_MASK));
>>+
>>+ sp = page_header(__pa(sptep));
>>+ pfn = spte_to_pfn(*sptep);
>>+ if (sp->role.direct &&
>
>It only works on direct mapping, please drop a comment to explain
>why.
>
>>+ !kvm_is_reserved_pfn(pfn) &&
>>+ PageTransCompound(pfn_to_page(pfn))) {
>>+ drop_spte(kvm, sptep);
>>+ need_tlb_flush = 1;
>>+ }
>>+ sptep = rmap_get_next(&iter);
>
>You can not get the next spte after drop the current spte. Please
>refer to kvm_unmap_rmapp().
>
>>+ }
>>+
>>+ return need_tlb_flush;
>>+}
>>+
>>+void kvm_mmu_zap_collapsible_sptes(struct kvm *kvm,
>>+ struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot)
>>+{
>>+ bool flush = false;
>>+ unsigned long *rmapp;
>>+ unsigned long last_index, index;
>>+ gfn_t gfn_start, gfn_end;
>>+
>>+ spin_lock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
>>+
>>+ gfn_start = memslot->base_gfn;
>>+ gfn_end = memslot->base_gfn + memslot->npages - 1;
>>+
>>+ if (gfn_start >= gfn_end)
>>+ goto out;
>>+
>>+ rmapp = memslot->arch.rmap[0];
>>+ last_index = gfn_to_index(gfn_end, memslot->base_gfn,
>>+ PT_PAGE_TABLE_LEVEL);
>>+
>>+ for (index = 0; index <= last_index; ++index, ++rmapp) {
>>+ if (*rmapp)
>>+ flush |= kvm_mmu_zap_collapsible_spte(kvm, rmapp);
>>+
>>+ if (need_resched() || spin_needbreak(&kvm->mmu_lock)) {
>>+ if (flush) {
>>+ kvm_flush_remote_tlbs(kvm);
>>+ flush = false;
>>+ }
>>+ cond_resched_lock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
>>+ }
>>+ }
>>+
>>+ if (flush)
>>+ kvm_flush_remote_tlbs(kvm);
>>+
>>+out:
>>+ spin_unlock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
>>+}
>>+
>> void kvm_mmu_slot_leaf_clear_dirty(struct kvm *kvm,
>> struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot)
>> {
>>diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
>>index c5f7e03..6037389 100644
>>--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
>>+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
>>@@ -7618,6 +7618,11 @@ void kvm_arch_commit_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm,
>> /* It's OK to get 'new' slot here as it has already been installed */
>> new = id_to_memslot(kvm->memslots, mem->slot);
>>
>>+ if ((change != KVM_MR_DELETE) &&
>>+ (old->flags & KVM_MEM_LOG_DIRTY_PAGES) &&
>>+ !(new->flags & KVM_MEM_LOG_DIRTY_PAGES))
>>+ kvm_mmu_zap_collapsible_sptes(kvm, new);
>>+
>
>You'd better drop comments here to explain the situation.
Just handle all your comments in v2, thanks for your review. ;)
Regards,
Wanpeng Li
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