On 11/9/22 19:59, David Matlack wrote:
Eager page splitting remains beneficial for write-heavy workloads, but
the gap is now reduced.
| Config: ept=Y, tdp_mmu=Y, 100% writes |
| Iteration 1 dirty memory time |
| --------------------------------------------- |
vCPU Count | eps=N (Before) | eps=N (After) | eps=Y |
------------ | -------------- | ------------- | ------------ |
2 | 0.317710329s | 0.296204596s | 0.058689782s |
4 | 0.337102375s | 0.299841017s | 0.060343076s |
8 | 0.386025681s | 0.297274460s | 0.060399702s |
16 | 0.791462524s | 0.298942578s | 0.062508699s |
32 | 1.719646014s | 0.313101996s | 0.075984855s |
64 | 2.527973150s | 0.455779206s | 0.079789363s |
96 | 2.681123208s | 0.673778787s | 0.165386739s |
Further study is needed to determine if the remaining gap is acceptable
for customer workloads or if eager_page_split=N still requires a-priori
knowledge of the VM workload, especially when considering these costs
extrapolated out to large VMs with e.g. 416 vCPUs and 12TB RAM.
Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Queued this one, patch 1 does not apply anymore.
Thanks,
Paolo
