[PATCH 0/7 -v2] KVM: Alleviate mmu_lock hold time when we startdirty logging

From: Takuya Yoshikawa
Date: Tue Jan 08 2013 - 05:42:02 EST


Changelog v1->v2:
The condition in patch 1 was changed like this:
npages && (mem->flags & KVM_MEM_LOG_DIRTY_PAGES)

This patch set makes kvm_mmu_slot_remove_write_access() rmap based and
adds conditional rescheduling to it.

The motivation for this change is of course to reduce the mmu_lock hold
time when we start dirty logging for a large memory slot. You may not
see the problem if you just give 8GB or less of the memory to the guest
with THP enabled on the host -- this is for the worst case.

Takuya Yoshikawa (7):
KVM: Write protect the updated slot only when dirty logging is enabled
KVM: MMU: Remove unused parameter level from __rmap_write_protect()
KVM: MMU: Make kvm_mmu_slot_remove_write_access() rmap based
KVM: Remove unused slot_bitmap from kvm_mmu_page
KVM: Make kvm_mmu_change_mmu_pages() take mmu_lock by itself
KVM: Make kvm_mmu_slot_remove_write_access() take mmu_lock by itself
KVM: MMU: Conditionally reschedule when kvm_mmu_slot_remove_write_access() takes a long time

Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt | 7 ----
arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 5 ---
arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 56 +++++++++++++++++++-----------------
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 12 ++++---
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 1 -
5 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)

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1.7.5.4

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