KVM: x86/mmu: Do not recover dirty-tracked NX Huge Pages
Do not recover (i.e. zap) an NX Huge Page that is being dirty tracked, as it will just be faulted back in at the same 4KiB granularity when accessed by a vCPU. This may need to be changed if KVM ever supports 2MiB (or larger) dirty tracking granularity, or faulting huge pages during dirty tracking for reads/executes. However for now, these zaps are entirely wasteful. In order to check if this commit increases the CPU usage of the NX recovery worker thread I used a modified version of execute_perf_test [1] that supports splitting guest memory into multiple slots and reports /proc/pid/schedstat:se.sum_exec_runtime for the NX recovery worker just before tearing down the VM. The goal was to force a large number of NX Huge Page recoveries and see if the recovery worker used any more CPU. Test Setup: echo 1000 > /sys/module/kvm/parameters/nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms echo 10 > /sys/module/kvm/parameters/nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio Test Command: ./execute_perf_test -v64 -s anonymous_hugetlb_1gb -x 16 -o | kvm-nx-lpage-re:se.sum_exec_runtime | | ---------------------------------------- | Run | Before | After | ------- | ------------------ | ------------------- | 1 | 730.084105 | 724.375314 | 2 | 728.751339 | 740.581988 | 3 | 736.264720 | 757.078163 | Comparing the median results, this commit results in about a 1% increase CPU usage of the NX recovery worker when testing a VM with 16 slots. However, the effect is negligible with the default halving time of NX pages, which is 1 hour rather than 10 seconds given by period_ms = 1000, ratio = 10. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20221019234050.3919566-2-dmatlack@google.com/ Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com> Message-Id: <20221103204421.1146958-1-dmatlack@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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