[PATCH v6 4/7] KVM: MMU: zap pages in batch

From: Xiao Guangrong
Date: Thu May 16 2013 - 17:14:46 EST


Zap at lease 10 pages before releasing mmu-lock to reduce the overload
caused by requiring lock

[ It improves kernel building 0.6% ~ 1% ]

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
index 891ad2c..7ad0e50 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -4207,14 +4207,18 @@ restart:
spin_unlock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
}

+#define BATCH_ZAP_PAGES 10
static void kvm_zap_obsolete_pages(struct kvm *kvm)
{
struct kvm_mmu_page *sp, *node;
LIST_HEAD(invalid_list);
+ int batch = 0;

restart:
list_for_each_entry_safe_reverse(sp, node,
&kvm->arch.active_mmu_pages, link) {
+ int ret;
+
/*
* No obsolete page exists before new created page since
* active_mmu_pages is the FIFO list.
@@ -4252,10 +4256,16 @@ restart:
* Need not flush tlb since we only zap the sp with invalid
* generation number.
*/
- if (cond_resched_lock(&kvm->mmu_lock))
+ if ((batch >= BATCH_ZAP_PAGES) &&
+ cond_resched_lock(&kvm->mmu_lock)) {
+ batch = 0;
goto restart;
+ }

- if (kvm_mmu_prepare_zap_page(kvm, sp, &invalid_list))
+ ret = kvm_mmu_prepare_zap_page(kvm, sp, &invalid_list);
+ batch += ret;
+
+ if (ret)
goto restart;
}

--
1.7.7.6

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