[PATCH 0/8] KVM: Optimize MMU notifier's THP page invalidation -v4

From: Takuya Yoshikawa
Date: Mon Jul 02 2012 - 04:52:56 EST


v3->v4: Resolved trace_kvm_age_page() issue -- patch 6,7
v2->v3: Fixed intersection calculations. -- patch 3, 8

Takuya

Takuya Yoshikawa (8):
KVM: MMU: Use __gfn_to_rmap() to clean up kvm_handle_hva()
KVM: Introduce hva_to_gfn_memslot() for kvm_handle_hva()
KVM: MMU: Make kvm_handle_hva() handle range of addresses
KVM: Introduce kvm_unmap_hva_range() for kvm_mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start()
KVM: Separate rmap_pde from kvm_lpage_info->write_count
KVM: MMU: Add memslot parameter to hva handlers
KVM: MMU: Push trace_kvm_age_page() into kvm_age_rmapp()
KVM: MMU: Avoid handling same rmap_pde in kvm_handle_hva_range()

arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 2 +
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_hv.c | 47 ++++++++++++---
arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 3 +-
arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 107 +++++++++++++++++++++++------------
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 11 ++++
include/linux/kvm_host.h | 8 +++
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 3 +-
7 files changed, 131 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)


>From v2:

The new test result was impressively good, see below, and THP page
invalidation was more than 5 times faster on my x86 machine.

Before:
...
19.852 us | __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start();
28.033 us | __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start();
19.066 us | __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start();
44.715 us | __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start();
31.613 us | __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start();
20.659 us | __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start();
19.979 us | __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start();
20.416 us | __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start();
20.632 us | __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start();
22.316 us | __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start();
...

After:
...
4.089 us | __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start();
4.096 us | __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start();
3.560 us | __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start();
3.376 us | __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start();
3.772 us | __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start();
3.353 us | __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start();
3.332 us | __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start();
3.332 us | __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start();
3.332 us | __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start();
3.337 us | __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start();
...
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