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The memslot for a given gfn is looked up multiple times during page fault handling. Avoid binary searching for it multiple times by caching the most recently used slot. There is an existing VM-wide last_used_slot but that does not work well for cases where vCPUs are accessing memory in different slots (see performance data below). Another benefit of caching the most recently use slot (versus looking up the slot once and passing around a pointer) is speeding up memslot lookups *across* faults and during spte prefetching. To measure the performance of this change I ran dirty_log_perf_test with 64 vCPUs and 64 memslots and measured "Populate memory time" and "Iteration 2 dirty memory time". Tests were ran with eptad=N to force dirty logging to use fast_page_fault so its performance could be measured. Config | Metric | Before | After ---------- | ----------------------------- | ------ | ------ tdp_mmu=Y | Populate memory time | 6.76s | 5.47s tdp_mmu=Y | Iteration 2 dirty memory time | 2.83s | 0.31s tdp_mmu=N | Populate memory time | 20.4s | 18.7s tdp_mmu=N | Iteration 2 dirty memory time | 2.65s | 0.30s The "Iteration 2 dirty memory time" results are especially compelling because they are equivalent to running the same test with a single memslot. In other words, fast_page_fault performance no longer scales with the number of memslots. Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com> Message-Id: <20210804222844.1419481-4-dmatlack@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.