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Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2015 17:41:57 +0200
From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@...ux.intel.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
CC: Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] kvm: mmu: lazy collapse small sptes into large sptes
On 03/04/2015 09:40, 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 split,
> 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.
>
> Reviewed-by: Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@...ux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@...ux.intel.com>
> ---
> v2 -> v3:
> * update comments
> * fix infinite for loop
> v1 -> v2:
> * use 'bool' instead of 'int'
> * add more comments
> * fix can not get the next spte after drop the current spte
>
> arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 2 ++
> arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 73 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 19 +++++++++++
> 3 files changed, 94 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> index 30b28dc..91b5bdb 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> @@ -854,6 +854,8 @@ 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..ba002a0 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> @@ -4465,6 +4465,79 @@ void kvm_mmu_slot_remove_write_access(struct kvm *kvm,
> kvm_flush_remote_tlbs(kvm);
> }
>
> +static bool kvm_mmu_zap_collapsible_spte(struct kvm *kvm,
> + unsigned long *rmapp)
> +{
> + 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);
> +
> + /*
> + * Lets support EPT only for now, there still needs to figure
> + * out an efficient way to let these codes be aware what mapping
> + * level used in guest.
> + */
> + if (sp->role.direct &&
> + !kvm_is_reserved_pfn(pfn) &&
> + PageTransCompound(pfn_to_page(pfn))) {
> + drop_spte(kvm, sptep);
> + sptep = rmap_get_first(*rmapp, &iter);
> + need_tlb_flush = 1;
> + } else
> + sptep = rmap_get_next(&iter);
> + }
> +
> + 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 50861dd..a6cd10b 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> @@ -7647,6 +7647,25 @@ void kvm_arch_commit_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm,
> new = id_to_memslot(kvm->memslots, mem->slot);
>
> /*
> + * Dirty logging tracks sptes in 4k granularity, so large sptes are
> + * split, 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.
> + *
> + * Lazy collapse small sptes into large sptes is intended to handle
> + * this, 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.
> + */
> + 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);
> +
> + /*
> * Set up write protection and/or dirty logging for the new slot.
> *
> * For KVM_MR_DELETE and KVM_MR_MOVE, the shadow pages of old slot have
>
Applied just with editing of the comments and commit message.
Thanks to you and Xiao.
Paolo
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