linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 06/10] KVM: MMU: fast path of handling guest page fault

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Message-ID: <4FA2767B.5010707@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 03 May 2012 15:13:47 +0300
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC:	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
	Takuya Yoshikawa <takuya.yoshikawa@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, KVM <kvm@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 06/10] KVM: MMU: fast path of handling guest page fault

On 05/03/2012 03:09 PM, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> Actually, the improvement of lockless is that it can let vcpu to be parallel
> as possible.
>
> From the test result, lockless gains little improvement for unix-migration,
> in this case, the vcpus are almost idle (at least not busy).
>
> The large improvement is from dbench-migration, in this case, all vcpus are
> busy accessing memory which is write-protected by dirty-log. If you enable
> page-fault/fast-page-fault tracepoints, you can see huge number of page fault
> from different vcpu during the migration.
>

We can kill the page faults completely by using A/D bits in shadow page
tables.  The latest version of the Intel SDM defines A/D bits for EPT,
and NPT has had them from day one.

Of course this comes at a cost, instead of traversing a bitmap we have
to read all sptes, which are 64x as large.  But it's probably worthwhile
for large guests and perhaps also for smaller ones.

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