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Tsirkin" To: zhaoguohan@kylinos.cn Cc: jasowangio@gmail.com, eperezma@redhat.com, xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux.dev, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] vhost: set dirty log bits without pinning pages on x86 Message-ID: <20261112045853-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> References: <20261112085631.128819-1-zhaoguohan@kylinos.cn> <20261112085631.128819-2-zhaoguohan@kylinos.cn> X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Owner: Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20261112085631.128819-2-zhaoguohan@kylinos.cn> On Thu, Nov 12, 2026 at 04:56:30PM +0800, zhaoguohan@kylinos.cn wrote: > From: Khan Zhao > > set_bit_to_user() pins the log page with pin_user_pages_fast(), maps it > with kmap_atomic(), sets one bit and then unpins the page and marks it > dirty. This runs for every bit set in the dirty log, e.g. on each used > ring update while logging is enabled for live migration. > > log_write() always passes a byte address and a bit number in [0, 7], so > the update can be done as a byte-sized cmpxchg on the user address. On > x86, try that first using unsafe_try_cmpxchg_user() inside a > user_access_begin()/user_access_end() section with page faults disabled. > If the access faults (page not present, read-only or needing COW), or > the cmpxchg loses to concurrent updates of the same byte four times in > a row, fall back to the existing pin/kmap/set_bit path, which can fault > the page in. > > unsafe_try_cmpxchg_user() is only implemented on x86, so other > architectures keep using the existing path. > > On an x86_64 KVM guest (i7-12800HX host), a synthetic used-ring > workload with logging enabled went from 243.60 to 171.11 ns per > descriptor, averaged over five alternating runs. This is the > end-to-end cost per descriptor, not live migration performance. > > Signed-off-by: Khan Zhao > --- > drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- > 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c > index e29f154706da..9c3045504709 100644 > --- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c > +++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c > @@ -2527,11 +2527,7 @@ long vhost_dev_ioctl(struct vhost_dev *d, unsigned int ioctl, void __user *argp) > } > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vhost_dev_ioctl); > > -/* TODO: This is really inefficient. We need something like get_user() > - * (instruction directly accesses the data, with an exception table entry > - * returning -EFAULT). See Documentation/arch/x86/exception-tables.rst. > - */ > -static int set_bit_to_user(int nr, void __user *addr) > +static int set_bit_to_user_slow(int nr, void __user *addr) > { > unsigned long log = (unsigned long)addr; > struct page *page; > @@ -2550,6 +2546,50 @@ static int set_bit_to_user(int nr, void __user *addr) > return 0; > } > > +#ifdef CONFIG_X86 Wait this is x86 specific anyway? So let's just implement it properly, why do we need all these hacks? I run a quick test on this in a VM, feel free to reuse: Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h index 3a0dd3c2b233e..3ed49c91a7434 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h @@ -594,6 +594,23 @@ _label: \ __ret; \ }) +#define set_bit_user(nr, addr) \ +({ \ + int __err = 0; \ + __uaccess_begin(); \ + asm volatile("\n" \ + "1: " LOCK_PREFIX "btsb %[bit], %[ptr]\n" \ + "2:\n" \ + _ASM_EXTABLE_TYPE_REG(1b, 2b, EX_TYPE_EFAULT_REG, \ + %[errout]) \ + : [errout] "=r" (__err), \ + [ptr] "+m" (*(u8 __user *)(addr)) \ + : [bit] "r" ((unsigned int)(nr)) \ + : "memory", "cc"); \ + __uaccess_end(); \ + __err ? -EFAULT : 0; \ +}) + /* * We want the unsafe accessors to always be inlined and use * the error labels - thus the macro games.