[PATCH] KVM: do not iterate over all VMs in mmu_shrink()

[PATCH] KVM: do not iterate over all VMs in mmu_shrink()

[Gleb Natapov]

mmu_shrink() needlessly iterates over all VMs even though it will not
attempt to free mmu pages from more than one on them. Fix that and also
check used mmu pages count outside of VM lock to skip inactive VMs faster.

Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
index c2fef8e..d1d477a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -3945,7 +3945,6 @@ static void kvm_mmu_remove_some_alloc_mmu_pages(struct kvm *kvm,
 static int mmu_shrink(struct shrinker *shrink, struct shrink_control *sc)
 {
 	struct kvm *kvm;
-	struct kvm *kvm_freed = NULL;
 	int nr_to_scan = sc->nr_to_scan;
 
 	if (nr_to_scan == 0)
@@ -3957,22 +3956,30 @@ static int mmu_shrink(struct shrinker *shrink, struct shrink_control *sc)
 		int idx;
 		LIST_HEAD(invalid_list);
 
+		/*
+		 * n_used_mmu_pages is accessed without holding kvm->mmu_lock
+		 * here. We may skip a VM instance errorneosly, but we do not
+		 * want to shrink a VM that only started to populate its MMU
+		 * anyway.
+		 */
+		if (kvm->arch.n_used_mmu_pages > 0) {
+			if (!nr_to_scan--)
+				break;
+			continue;
+		}
+
 		idx = srcu_read_lock(&kvm->srcu);
 		spin_lock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
-		if (!kvm_freed && nr_to_scan > 0 &&
-		    kvm->arch.n_used_mmu_pages > 0) {
-			kvm_mmu_remove_some_alloc_mmu_pages(kvm,
-							    &invalid_list);
-			kvm_freed = kvm;
-		}
-		nr_to_scan--;
 
+		kvm_mmu_remove_some_alloc_mmu_pages(kvm, &invalid_list);
 		kvm_mmu_commit_zap_page(kvm, &invalid_list);
+
 		spin_unlock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
 		srcu_read_unlock(&kvm->srcu, idx);
+
+		list_move_tail(&kvm->vm_list, &vm_list);
+		break;
 	}
-	if (kvm_freed)
-		list_move_tail(&kvm_freed->vm_list, &vm_list);
 
 	raw_spin_unlock(&kvm_lock);
 
--
			Gleb.

Re: [PATCH] KVM: do not iterate over all VMs in mmu_shrink()

[Avi Kivity]

On 06/04/2012 02:53 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> mmu_shrink() needlessly iterates over all VMs even though it will not
> attempt to free mmu pages from more than one on them. Fix that and also
> check used mmu pages count outside of VM lock to skip inactive VMs faster.
> 

Applied, thanks.


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