On 02/03/2010 11:11 PM, Rik van Riel wrote:
Currently KVM pretends that pages with EPT mappings never got accessed. This has some side effects in the VM, like swapping out actively used guest pages and needlessly breaking up actively used hugepages. We can avoid those very costly side effects by emulating the accessed bit for EPT PTEs, which should only be slightly costly because pages pass through page_referenced infrequently. TLB flushing is taken care of by kvm_mmu_notifier_clear_flush_young(). This seems to help prevent KVM guests from being swapped out when they should not on my system.
Applied, thanks.
- /* always return old for EPT */ + /* + * Emulate the accessed bit for EPT, by checking if this page has + * an EPT mapping, and clearing it if it does. On the next access, + * a new EPT mapping will be established. + * This has some overhead, but not as much as the cost of swapping + * out actively used pages or breaking up actively used hugepages. + */ if (!shadow_accessed_mask) - return 0; + return kvm_unmap_rmapp(kvm, rmapp, data);
This could be optimized by using a software-available bit for 'present' and the rwx bits for young, that is:
(present, rwx) -> the page is present and recently accessed, will not cause EPT violation (present, !rwx) -> page is present but old, will cause EPT violation but not rmap games and get_user_pages_fast().
However that's best done later if ever. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
