On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 09:32:27AM +0800, Jay Zhou wrote: > It could take kvm->mmu_lock for an extended period of time when > enabling dirty log for the first time. The main cost is to clear > all the D-bits of last level SPTEs. This situation can benefit from > manual dirty log protect as well, which can reduce the mmu_lock > time taken. The sequence is like this: > > 1. Initialize all the bits of the dirty bitmap to 1 when enabling > dirty log for the first time > 2. Only write protect the huge pages > 3. KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG returns the dirty bitmap info > 4. KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY_LOG will clear D-bit for each of the leaf level > SPTEs gradually in small chunks > > Under the Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6152 CPU @ 2.10GHz environment, > I did some tests with a 128G windows VM and counted the time taken > of memory_global_dirty_log_start, here is the numbers: > > VM Size Before After optimization > 128G 460ms 10ms > > Signed-off-by: Jay Zhou <jianjay.zhou@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx> -- Peter Xu
