Commit 694627e6 authored by Keqian Zhu's avatar Keqian Zhu Committed by zhengchuan
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KVM: arm64: Support enabling dirty log gradually in small chunks

mainline inclusion
from mainline-v5.10
commit: c862626e
category: feature
bugzilla: https://gitee.com/openeuler/kernel/issues/I66COX
CVE: NA

Reference: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?h=linux-5.10.y&id=c862626e19efdc26b26481515470b160e8fe52f3



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There is already support of enabling dirty log gradually in small chunks
for x86 in commit 3c9bd400 ("KVM: x86: enable dirty log gradually in
small chunks"). This adds support for arm64.

x86 still writes protect all huge pages when DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_ALL_SET
is enabled. However, for arm64, both huge pages and normal pages can be
write protected gradually by userspace.

Under the Huawei Kunpeng 920 2.6GHz platform, I did some tests on 128G
Linux VMs with different page size. The memory pressure is 127G in each
case. The time taken of memory_global_dirty_log_start in QEMU is listed
below:

Page Size      Before    After Optimization
  4K            650ms         1.8ms
  2M             4ms          1.8ms
  1G             2ms          1.8ms

Besides the time reduction, the biggest improvement is that we will minimize
the performance side effect (because of dissolving huge pages and marking
memslots dirty) on guest after enabling dirty log.

Signed-off-by: default avatarKeqian Zhu <zhukeqian1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMarc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200413122023.52583-1-zhukeqian1@huawei.com
parent 1135dc02
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