Still reading, but sounds great if this works! I did not like the idea of mmio-rmap based approach so much, but this would be really/perfectly scalable. Thanks, Takuya On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 23:26:16 +0800 Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The current way is holding hot mmu-lock and walking all shadow pages, this > is not scale. This patchset tries to introduce a very simple and scale way > to fast invalid all mmio sptes - it need not walk any shadow pages and hold > any locks. > > The idea is simple: > KVM maintains a global mmio invalid generation-number which is stored in > kvm->arch.mmio_invalid_gen and every mmio spte stores the current global > generation-number into his available bits when it is created. > > When KVM need zap all mmio sptes, it just simply increase the global > generation-number. When guests do mmio access, KVM intercepts a MMIO #PF > then it walks the shadow page table and get the mmio spte. If the > generation-number on the spte does not equal the global generation-number, > it will go to the normal #PF handler to update the mmio spte. > > Since 19 bits are used to store generation-number on mmio spte, the > generation-number can be round after 33554432 times. It is large enough > for nearly all most cases, but making the code be more strong, we zap all > shadow pages when the number is round. > > Note: after my patchset that fast zap all shadow pages, kvm_mmu_zap_all is > not a problem any more. The scalability is the same as zap mmio shadow page > > > -- > 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 -- Takuya Yoshikawa <takuya.yoshikawa@xxxxxxxxx> -- 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
