Currently, the NX huge page recovery thread wakes up every minute and
zaps 1/nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio of the total number of split NX
huge pages at a time. This is intended to ensure that only a
relatively small number of pages get zapped at a time. But for very
large VMs (or more specifically, VMs with a large number of
executable pages), a period of 1 minute could still result in this
number being too high (unless the ratio is changed significantly,
but that can result in split pages lingering on for too long).
This change makes the period configurable instead of fixing it at
1 minute. Users of large VMs can then adjust the period and/or the
ratio to reduce the number of pages zapped at one time while still
maintaining the same overall duration for cycling through the
entire list. By default, KVM derives a period from the ratio such
that a page will remain on the list for 1 hour on average.
Signed-off-by: Junaid Shahid <junaids@google.com>
Message-Id: <20211020010627.305925-1-junaids@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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