From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>, Peter Shier <pshier@google.com>,
Peter Feiner <pfeiner@google.com>,
Junaid Shahid <junaids@google.com>,
Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>,
Yulei Zhang <yulei.kernel@gmail.com>,
Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>,
Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong.eric@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 19/24] kvm: x86/mmu: Protect tdp_mmu_pages with a lock
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2021 14:09:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YBCTBQ4lfJQ51Imn@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YBCRcalZJwAlkO9F@google.com>
On Tue, Jan 26, 2021, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2021, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > On 21/01/21 22:32, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > > Coming back to this series, I wonder if the RCU approach is truly necessary to
> > > get the desired scalability. If both zap_collapsible_sptes() and NX huge page
> > > recovery zap_only_ leaf SPTEs, then the only path that can actually unlink a
> > > shadow page while holding the lock for read is the page fault path that installs
> > > a huge page over an existing shadow page.
> > >
> > > Assuming the above analysis is correct, I think it's worth exploring alternatives
> > > to using RCU to defer freeing the SP memory, e.g. promoting to a write lock in
> > > the specific case of overwriting a SP (though that may not exist for rwlocks),
> > > or maybe something entirely different?
> >
> > You can do the deferred freeing with a short write-side critical section to
> > ensure all readers have terminated.
>
> Hmm, the most obvious downside I see is that the zap_collapsible_sptes() case
> will not scale as well as the RCU approach. E.g. the lock may be heavily
> contested when refaulting all of guest memory to (re)install huge pages after a
> failed migration.
>
> Though I wonder, could we do something even more clever for that particular
> case? And I suppose it would apply to NX huge pages as well. Instead of
> zapping the leaf PTEs and letting the fault handler install the huge page, do an
> in-place promotion when dirty logging is disabled. That could all be done under
> the read lock, and with Paolo's method for deferred free on the back end. That
> way only the thread doing the memslot update would take mmu_lock for write, and
> only once per memslot update.
Oh, and we could even skip the remote TLB flush in that case since the GPA->HPA
translation is unchanged.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-26 22:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-12 18:10 [PATCH 00/24] Allow parallel page faults with TDP MMU Ben Gardon
2021-01-12 18:10 ` [PATCH 01/24] locking/rwlocks: Add contention detection for rwlocks Ben Gardon
2021-01-12 18:10 ` [PATCH 02/24] sched: Add needbreak " Ben Gardon
2021-01-12 18:10 ` [PATCH 03/24] sched: Add cond_resched_rwlock Ben Gardon
2021-01-12 18:10 ` [PATCH 04/24] kvm: x86/mmu: change TDP MMU yield function returns to match cond_resched Ben Gardon
2021-01-20 18:38 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-01-21 20:22 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-26 14:11 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-12 18:10 ` [PATCH 05/24] kvm: x86/mmu: Fix yielding in TDP MMU Ben Gardon
2021-01-20 19:28 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-01-22 1:06 ` Ben Gardon
2021-01-12 18:10 ` [PATCH 06/24] kvm: x86/mmu: Skip no-op changes in TDP MMU functions Ben Gardon
2021-01-20 19:51 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-01-25 23:51 ` Ben Gardon
2021-01-12 18:10 ` [PATCH 07/24] kvm: x86/mmu: Add comment on __tdp_mmu_set_spte Ben Gardon
2021-01-26 14:13 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-12 18:10 ` [PATCH 08/24] kvm: x86/mmu: Add lockdep when setting a TDP MMU SPTE Ben Gardon
2021-01-20 19:58 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-01-26 14:13 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-12 18:10 ` [PATCH 09/24] kvm: x86/mmu: Don't redundantly clear TDP MMU pt memory Ben Gardon
2021-01-20 20:06 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-01-26 14:14 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-12 18:10 ` [PATCH 10/24] kvm: x86/mmu: Factor out handle disconnected pt Ben Gardon
2021-01-20 20:30 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-01-26 14:14 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-12 18:10 ` [PATCH 11/24] kvm: x86/mmu: Put TDP MMU PT walks in RCU read-critical section Ben Gardon
2021-01-20 22:19 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-01-12 18:10 ` [PATCH 12/24] kvm: x86/kvm: RCU dereference tdp mmu page table links Ben Gardon
2021-01-22 18:32 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-01-26 18:17 ` Ben Gardon
2021-01-12 18:10 ` [PATCH 13/24] kvm: x86/mmu: Only free tdp_mmu pages after a grace period Ben Gardon
2021-01-12 18:10 ` [PATCH 14/24] kvm: mmu: Wrap mmu_lock lock / unlock in a function Ben Gardon
2021-01-12 18:10 ` [PATCH 15/24] kvm: mmu: Wrap mmu_lock cond_resched and needbreak Ben Gardon
2021-01-21 0:19 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-01-21 20:17 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-26 14:38 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-26 17:47 ` Ben Gardon
2021-01-26 17:55 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-26 18:11 ` Ben Gardon
2021-01-26 20:47 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-27 20:08 ` Ben Gardon
2021-01-27 20:55 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-27 21:20 ` Ben Gardon
2021-01-28 8:18 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-12 18:10 ` [PATCH 16/24] kvm: mmu: Wrap mmu_lock assertions Ben Gardon
2021-01-26 14:29 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-12 18:10 ` [PATCH 17/24] kvm: mmu: Move mmu_lock to struct kvm_arch Ben Gardon
2021-01-12 18:10 ` [PATCH 18/24] kvm: x86/mmu: Use an rwlock for the x86 TDP MMU Ben Gardon
2021-01-21 0:45 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-01-12 18:10 ` [PATCH 19/24] kvm: x86/mmu: Protect tdp_mmu_pages with a lock Ben Gardon
2021-01-21 19:22 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-01-21 21:32 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-01-26 14:27 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-26 21:47 ` Ben Gardon
2021-01-26 22:02 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-01-26 22:09 ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2021-01-27 12:40 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-26 13:37 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-26 21:07 ` Ben Gardon
2021-01-12 18:10 ` [PATCH 20/24] kvm: x86/mmu: Add atomic option for setting SPTEs Ben Gardon
2021-01-26 14:21 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-12 18:10 ` [PATCH 21/24] kvm: x86/mmu: Use atomic ops to set SPTEs in TDP MMU map Ben Gardon
2021-01-12 18:10 ` [PATCH 22/24] kvm: x86/mmu: Flush TLBs after zap in TDP MMU PF handler Ben Gardon
2021-01-21 0:05 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-01-12 18:10 ` [PATCH 23/24] kvm: x86/mmu: Freeze SPTEs in disconnected pages Ben Gardon
2021-01-12 18:10 ` [PATCH 24/24] kvm: x86/mmu: Allow parallel page faults for the TDP MMU Ben Gardon
2021-01-21 0:55 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-01-26 21:57 ` Ben Gardon
2021-01-27 17:14 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-01-26 13:37 ` Paolo Bonzini
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