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From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] KVM: MMU: fast zap all shadow pages
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 22:07:06 -0300
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To: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 12:59:12PM +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> The current kvm_mmu_zap_all is really slow - it is holding mmu-lock to
> walk and zap all shadow pages one by one, also it need to zap all guest
> page's rmap and all shadow page's parent spte list. Particularly, things
> become worse if guest uses more memory or vcpus. It is not good for
> scalability.
> 
> Since all shadow page will be zapped, we can directly zap the mmu-cache
> and rmap so that vcpu will fault on the new mmu-cache, after that, we can
> directly free the memory used by old mmu-cache.
> 
> The root shadow page is little especial since they are currently used by
> vcpus, we can not directly free them. So, we zap the root shadow pages and
> re-add them into the new mmu-cache.
> 
> After this patch, kvm_mmu_zap_all can be faster 113% than before
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c |   62 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  1 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> index e326099..536d9ce 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> @@ -4186,18 +4186,68 @@ void kvm_mmu_slot_remove_write_access(struct kvm *kvm, int slot)
> 
>  void kvm_mmu_zap_all(struct kvm *kvm)
>  {
> -	struct kvm_mmu_page *sp, *node;
> +	LIST_HEAD(root_mmu_pages);
>  	LIST_HEAD(invalid_list);
> +	struct list_head pte_list_descs;
> +	struct kvm_mmu_cache *cache = &kvm->arch.mmu_cache;
> +	struct kvm_mmu_page *sp, *node;
> +	struct pte_list_desc *desc, *ndesc;
> +	int root_sp = 0;
> 
>  	spin_lock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
> +
>  restart:
> -	list_for_each_entry_safe(sp, node,
> -	      &kvm->arch.mmu_cache.active_mmu_pages, link)
> -		if (kvm_mmu_prepare_zap_page(kvm, sp, &invalid_list))
> -			goto restart;
> +	/*
> +	 * The root shadow pages are being used on vcpus that can not
> +	 * directly removed, we filter them out and re-add them to the
> +	 * new mmu cache.
> +	 */
> +	list_for_each_entry_safe(sp, node, &cache->active_mmu_pages, link)
> +		if (sp->root_count) {
> +			int ret;
> +
> +			root_sp++;
> +			ret = kvm_mmu_prepare_zap_page(kvm, sp, &invalid_list);
> +			list_move(&sp->link, &root_mmu_pages);
> +			if (ret)
> +				goto restart;
> +		}

Why is it safe to skip flushing of root pages, for all
kvm_flush_shadow() callers?

Should revisit KVM_REQ_MMU_RELOAD... not clear it is necessary for NPT
(unrelated).