Re: [PATCH v3 10/15] KVM: MMU: allocate shadow pages from slab

[Gleb Natapov]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 09:29:28PM +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> Allocate shadow pages from slab instead of page-allocator, frequent
> shadow page allocation and free can be hit in the slab cache, it is
> very useful for shadow mmu
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h |  3 ++-
>  arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c              | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>  2 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> index 5cbf316..df9ae10 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> @@ -389,6 +389,7 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_arch {
>  	struct kvm_mmu *walk_mmu;
>  
>  	struct kvm_mmu_memory_cache mmu_pte_list_desc_cache;
> +	struct kvm_mmu_memory_cache mmu_shadow_page_cache;
>  	struct kvm_mmu_memory_cache mmu_page_cache;
>  	struct kvm_mmu_memory_cache mmu_page_header_cache;
>  
> @@ -946,7 +947,7 @@ static inline struct kvm_mmu_page *page_header(hpa_t shadow_page)
>  {
>  	struct page *page = pfn_to_page(shadow_page >> PAGE_SHIFT);
>  
> -	return (struct kvm_mmu_page *)page_private(page);
> +	return (struct kvm_mmu_page *)(page->mapping);
Why?

>  }
>  
>  static inline u16 kvm_read_ldt(void)
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> index f3ae74e6..1bcc8c8 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> @@ -178,6 +178,7 @@ struct kvm_shadow_walk_iterator {
>  	     __shadow_walk_next(&(_walker), spte))
>  
>  static struct kmem_cache *pte_list_desc_cache;
> +static struct kmem_cache *mmu_shadow_page_cache;
>  static struct kmem_cache *mmu_page_header_cache;
>  static struct percpu_counter kvm_total_used_mmu_pages;
>  
> @@ -746,7 +747,14 @@ static int mmu_topup_memory_caches(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  				   GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (r)
>  		goto out;
> -	r = mmu_topup_memory_cache_page(&vcpu->arch.mmu_page_cache, 8);
> +
> +	r = mmu_topup_memory_cache(&vcpu->arch.mmu_shadow_page_cache,
> +				   mmu_shadow_page_cache, 4,
> +				   GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (r)
> +		goto out;
> +
> +	r = mmu_topup_memory_cache_page(&vcpu->arch.mmu_page_cache, 4);
>  	if (r)
>  		goto out;
>  	r = mmu_topup_memory_cache(&vcpu->arch.mmu_page_header_cache,
> @@ -760,6 +768,8 @@ static void mmu_free_memory_caches(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  {
>  	mmu_free_memory_cache(&vcpu->arch.mmu_pte_list_desc_cache,
>  				pte_list_desc_cache);
> +	mmu_free_memory_cache(&vcpu->arch.mmu_pte_list_desc_cache,
> +				mmu_shadow_page_cache);
>  	mmu_free_memory_cache_page(&vcpu->arch.mmu_page_cache);
>  	mmu_free_memory_cache(&vcpu->arch.mmu_page_header_cache,
>  				mmu_page_header_cache);
> @@ -1675,12 +1685,28 @@ static inline void kvm_mod_used_mmu_pages(struct kvm *kvm, int nr)
>  	percpu_counter_add(&kvm_total_used_mmu_pages, nr);
>  }
>  
> +static void set_page_header(struct kvm_mmu_page *sp)
> +{
> +	struct page *page = virt_to_page(sp->spt);
> +
> +	WARN_ON(page->mapping);
> +	page->mapping = (struct address_space *)sp;
> +}
> +
> +static void clear_page_header(struct kvm_mmu_page *sp)
> +{
> +	struct page *page = virt_to_page(sp->spt);
> +
> +	page->mapping = NULL;
> +}
> +
>  static void kvm_mmu_free_page(struct kvm_mmu_page *sp)
>  {
>  	ASSERT(is_empty_shadow_page(sp->spt));
>  	hlist_del(&sp->hash_link);
>  	list_del(&sp->link);
> -	free_page((unsigned long)sp->spt);
> +	clear_page_header(sp);
> +	kmem_cache_free(mmu_shadow_page_cache, sp->spt);
>  	if (!sp->role.direct)
>  		free_page((unsigned long)sp->gfns);
>  	kmem_cache_free(mmu_page_header_cache, sp);
> @@ -1719,10 +1745,10 @@ static struct kvm_mmu_page *kvm_mmu_alloc_page(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>  	struct kvm_mmu_page *sp;
>  
>  	sp = mmu_memory_cache_alloc(&vcpu->arch.mmu_page_header_cache);
> -	sp->spt = mmu_memory_cache_alloc(&vcpu->arch.mmu_page_cache);
> +	sp->spt = mmu_memory_cache_alloc(&vcpu->arch.mmu_shadow_page_cache);
>  	if (!direct)
>  		sp->gfns = mmu_memory_cache_alloc(&vcpu->arch.mmu_page_cache);
> -	set_page_private(virt_to_page(sp->spt), (unsigned long)sp);
> +	set_page_header(sp);
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * The active_mmu_pages list is the FIFO list, do not move the
> @@ -2046,12 +2072,13 @@ static void mmu_sync_children(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>  	}
>  }
>  
> -static void init_shadow_page_table(struct kvm_mmu_page *sp)
> +static void init_shadow_page_table(void *p)
>  {
> +	u64 *sptp = (u64 *)p;
>  	int i;
>  
>  	for (i = 0; i < PT64_ENT_PER_PAGE; ++i)
> -		sp->spt[i] = 0ull;
> +		sptp[i] = 0ull;
>  }
>  
>  static void __clear_sp_write_flooding_count(struct kvm_mmu_page *sp)
> @@ -2137,7 +2164,6 @@ static struct kvm_mmu_page *kvm_mmu_get_page(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>  		account_shadowed(vcpu->kvm, gfn);
>  	}
>  	sp->mmu_valid_gen = vcpu->kvm->arch.mmu_valid_gen;
> -	init_shadow_page_table(sp);
>  	trace_kvm_mmu_get_page(sp, true);
>  	return sp;
>  }
> @@ -4683,6 +4709,12 @@ int kvm_mmu_module_init(void)
>  	if (!pte_list_desc_cache)
>  		goto nomem;
>  
> +	mmu_shadow_page_cache = kmem_cache_create("mmu_shadow_page_cache",
> +						  PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SIZE, 0,
> +						  init_shadow_page_table);
> +	if (!mmu_shadow_page_cache)
> +		goto nomem;
> +
>  	mmu_page_header_cache = kmem_cache_create("kvm_mmu_page_header",
>  						  sizeof(struct kvm_mmu_page),
>  						  0, 0, NULL);
> -- 
> 1.8.1.4

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			Gleb.
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