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Commit d095d43e authored by David Vrabel's avatar David Vrabel Committed by Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
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xen/mm: do direct hypercall in xen_set_pte() if batching is unavailable



In xen_set_pte() if batching is unavailable (because the caller is in
an interrupt context such as handling a page fault) it would fall back
to using native_set_pte() and trapping and emulating the PTE write.

On 32-bit guests this requires two traps for each PTE write (one for
each dword of the PTE).  Instead, do one mmu_update hypercall
directly.

During construction of the initial page tables, continue to use
native_set_pte() because most of the PTEs being set are in writable
and unpinned pages (see phys_pmd_init() in arch/x86/mm/init_64.c) and
using a hypercall for this is very expensive.

This significantly improves page fault performance in 32-bit PV
guests.

lmbench3 test  Before    After     Improvement
----------------------------------------------
lat_pagefault  3.18 us   2.32 us   27%
lat_proc fork  356 us    313.3 us  11%

Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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