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Subject[PATCH 0/6] KVM: Optimize MMU notifier's THP page invalidation -v2
I added further optimization based on Avi's advice and my rmap_pde work.
- patch [5-6]

The new test result was impressively good, see below, and THP page
invalidation was more than 5 times faster on my x86 machine.

I also noticed that GUI's responsiveness on the host during swapping the
guest's memory improved a lot.

Before:
...
19.852 us | __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start();
28.033 us | __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start();
19.066 us | __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start();
44.715 us | __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start();
31.613 us | __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start();
20.659 us | __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start();
19.979 us | __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start();
20.416 us | __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start();
20.632 us | __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start();
22.316 us | __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start();
...

After:
...
4.089 us | __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start();
4.096 us | __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start();
3.560 us | __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start();
3.376 us | __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start();
3.772 us | __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start();
3.353 us | __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start();
3.332 us | __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start();
3.332 us | __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start();
3.332 us | __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start();
3.337 us | __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start();
...

Takuya Yoshikawa (6):
KVM: MMU: Use __gfn_to_rmap() to clean up kvm_handle_hva()
KVM: Introduce hva_to_gfn_memslot() for kvm_handle_hva()
KVM: MMU: Make kvm_handle_hva() handle range of addresses
KVM: Introduce kvm_unmap_hva_range() for kvm_mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start()
KVM: Separate rmap_pde from kvm_lpage_info->write_count
KVM: MMU: Avoid handling same rmap_pde in kvm_handle_hva_range()

arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 2 +
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_hv.c | 42 +++++++++++++++-----
arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 3 +-
arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 72 +++++++++++++++++++++++------------
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 13 ++++++-
include/linux/kvm_host.h | 8 ++++
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 3 +-
7 files changed, 104 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

--
1.7.5.4



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