linux/virt/kvm
Jay Zhou 3c9bd4006b KVM: x86: enable dirty log gradually in small chunks
It could take kvm->mmu_lock for an extended period of time when
enabling dirty log for the first time. The main cost is to clear
all the D-bits of last level SPTEs. This situation can benefit from
manual dirty log protect as well, which can reduce the mmu_lock
time taken. The sequence is like this:

1. Initialize all the bits of the dirty bitmap to 1 when enabling
   dirty log for the first time
2. Only write protect the huge pages
3. KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG returns the dirty bitmap info
4. KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY_LOG will clear D-bit for each of the leaf level
   SPTEs gradually in small chunks

Under the Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6152 CPU @ 2.10GHz environment,
I did some tests with a 128G windows VM and counted the time taken
of memory_global_dirty_log_start, here is the numbers:

VM Size        Before    After optimization
128G           460ms     10ms

Signed-off-by: Jay Zhou <jianjay.zhou@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2020-03-16 17:57:37 +01:00
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arm KVM: Remove unnecessary asm/kvm_host.h includes 2020-03-16 17:57:34 +01:00
async_pf.c KVM: async_pf: drop kvm_arch_async_page_present wrappers 2020-01-23 09:51:08 +01:00
async_pf.h treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 504 2019-06-19 17:09:56 +02:00
coalesced_mmio.c KVM: MMIO: get rid of odd out_err label in kvm_coalesced_mmio_init 2019-11-15 11:44:01 +01:00
coalesced_mmio.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
eventfd.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 504 2019-06-19 17:09:56 +02:00
irqchip.c KVM/arm updates for 5.3 2019-07-11 15:14:16 +02:00
Kconfig KVM: polling: add architecture backend to disable polling 2019-04-26 09:08:17 +02:00
kvm_main.c KVM: x86: enable dirty log gradually in small chunks 2020-03-16 17:57:37 +01:00
vfio.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 500 2019-06-19 17:09:55 +02:00
vfio.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00