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KVM: VMX: Dynamically enable/disable PML based on memslot dirty logging
authorMakarand Sonare <makarandsonare@google.com>
Sat, 13 Feb 2021 00:50:12 +0000 (16:50 -0800)
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Fri, 19 Feb 2021 08:08:34 +0000 (03:08 -0500)
commitce880bd7198b487825796f68e1b7403e5ab6a8b0
treec7772a30d1067c14656659f5d6abb9a9e033eaf1
parent94278dd5f7565fce277f8b860d2dad33d133ede9
KVM: VMX: Dynamically enable/disable PML based on memslot dirty logging

Currently, if enable_pml=1 PML remains enabled for the entire lifetime
of the VM irrespective of whether dirty logging is enable or disabled.
When dirty logging is disabled, all the pages of the VM are manually
marked dirty, so that PML is effectively non-operational.  Setting
the dirty bits is an expensive operation which can cause severe MMU
lock contention in a performance sensitive path when dirty logging is
disabled after a failed or canceled live migration.

Manually setting dirty bits also fails to prevent PML activity if some
code path clears dirty bits, which can incur unnecessary VM-Exits.

In order to avoid this extra overhead, dynamically enable/disable PML
when dirty logging gets turned on/off for the first/last memslot.

Signed-off-by: Makarand Sonare <makarandsonare@google.com>
Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20210213005015.1651772-12-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
arch/x86/include/asm/kvm-x86-ops.h
arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.h
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c