Re: [PATCH 00/15] Currently disabling dirty logging with the TDP MMU is extremely slow. On a 96 vCPU / 96G VM it takes ~45 seconds to disable dirty logging with the TDP MMU, as opposed to ~3.5 seconds with the legacy MMU. This series optimizes TLB flushes and introduces in-place large page promotion, to bring the disable dirty log time down to ~2 seconds.

[Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 3:46 PM Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com> wrote:

Haha oops, I lost the covers letter title there. It should have been
"KVM: x86/mmu: Optimize disabling dirty logging" and the subject line
should have been the first paragraph.
I'll correct that on any future versions of this series I send out.

>
> Testing:
> Ran KVM selftests and kvm-unit-tests on an Intel Skylake. This
> series introduced no new failures.
>
> Performance:
> To collect these results I needed to apply Mingwei's patch
> "selftests: KVM: align guest physical memory base address to 1GB"
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/8/29/310
> David Matlack is going to send out an updated version of that patch soon.
>
> Without this series, TDP MMU:
> > ./dirty_log_perf_test -v 96 -s anonymous_hugetlb_1gb
> Test iterations: 2
> Testing guest mode: PA-bits:ANY, VA-bits:48,  4K pages
> guest physical test memory offset: 0x3fe7c0000000
> Populate memory time: 10.966500447s
> Enabling dirty logging time: 0.002068737s
>
> Iteration 1 dirty memory time: 0.047556280s
> Iteration 1 get dirty log time: 0.001253914s
> Iteration 1 clear dirty log time: 0.049716661s
> Iteration 2 dirty memory time: 3.679662016s
> Iteration 2 get dirty log time: 0.000659546s
> Iteration 2 clear dirty log time: 1.834329322s
> Disabling dirty logging time: 45.738439510s
> Get dirty log over 2 iterations took 0.001913460s. (Avg 0.000956730s/iteration)
> Clear dirty log over 2 iterations took 1.884045983s. (Avg 0.942022991s/iteration)
>
> Without this series, Legacy MMU:
> > ./dirty_log_perf_test -v 96 -s anonymous_hugetlb_1gb
> Test iterations: 2
> Testing guest mode: PA-bits:ANY, VA-bits:48,  4K pages
> guest physical test memory offset: 0x3fe7c0000000
> Populate memory time: 12.664750666s
> Enabling dirty logging time: 0.002025510s
>
> Iteration 1 dirty memory time: 0.046240875s
> Iteration 1 get dirty log time: 0.001864342s
> Iteration 1 clear dirty log time: 0.170243637s
> Iteration 2 dirty memory time: 31.571088701s
> Iteration 2 get dirty log time: 0.000626245s
> Iteration 2 clear dirty log time: 1.294817729s
> Disabling dirty logging time: 3.566831573s
> Get dirty log over 2 iterations took 0.002490587s. (Avg 0.001245293s/iteration)
> Clear dirty log over 2 iterations took 1.465061366s. (Avg 0.732530683s/iteration)
>
> With this series, TDP MMU:
> (Updated since RFC. Pulling out patches 1-4 could have a performance impact.)
> > ./dirty_log_perf_test -v 96 -s anonymous_hugetlb_1gb
> Test iterations: 2
> Testing guest mode: PA-bits:ANY, VA-bits:48,  4K pages
> guest physical test memory offset: 0x3fe7c0000000
> Populate memory time: 12.225242366s
> Enabling dirty logging time: 0.002063442s
>
> Iteration 1 dirty memory time: 0.047598123s
> Iteration 1 get dirty log time: 0.001247702s
> Iteration 1 clear dirty log time: 0.051062420s
> Iteration 2 dirty memory time: 3.660439803s
> Iteration 2 get dirty log time: 0.000736229s
> Iteration 2 clear dirty log time: 1.043469951s
> Disabling dirty logging time: 1.400549627s
> Get dirty log over 2 iterations took 0.001983931s. (Avg 0.000991965s/iteration)
> Clear dirty log over 2 iterations took 1.094532371s. (Avg 0.547266185s/iteration)
>
> Patch breakdown:
> Patches 1 eliminates extra TLB flushes while disabling dirty logging.
> Patches 2-8 remove the need for a vCPU pointer to make_spte
> Patches 9-14 are small refactors in perparation for patch 19
> Patch 15 implements in-place largepage promotion when disabling dirty logging
>
> Changelog:
> RFC -> v1:
>         Dropped the first 4 patches from the series. Patch 1 was sent
>         separately, patches 2-4 will be taken over by Sean Christopherson.
>         Incorporated David Matlack's Reviewed-by.
>
> Ben Gardon (15):
>   KVM: x86/mmu: Remove redundant flushes when disabling dirty logging
>   KVM: x86/mmu: Introduce vcpu_make_spte
>   KVM: x86/mmu: Factor wrprot for nested PML out of make_spte
>   KVM: x86/mmu: Factor mt_mask out of make_spte
>   KVM: x86/mmu: Remove need for a vcpu from
>     kvm_slot_page_track_is_active
>   KVM: x86/mmu: Remove need for a vcpu from mmu_try_to_unsync_pages
>   KVM: x86/mmu: Factor shadow_zero_check out of make_spte
>   KVM: x86/mmu: Replace vcpu argument with kvm pointer in make_spte
>   KVM: x86/mmu: Factor out the meat of reset_tdp_shadow_zero_bits_mask
>   KVM: x86/mmu: Propagate memslot const qualifier
>   KVM: x86/MMU: Refactor vmx_get_mt_mask
>   KVM: x86/mmu: Factor out part of vmx_get_mt_mask which does not depend
>     on vcpu
>   KVM: x86/mmu: Add try_get_mt_mask to x86_ops
>   KVM: x86/mmu: Make kvm_is_mmio_pfn usable outside of spte.c
>   KVM: x86/mmu: Promote pages in-place when disabling dirty logging
>
>  arch/x86/include/asm/kvm-x86-ops.h    |  1 +
>  arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h       |  2 +
>  arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_page_track.h |  6 +-
>  arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c                | 45 +++++++------
>  arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu_internal.h       |  6 +-
>  arch/x86/kvm/mmu/page_track.c         |  8 +--
>  arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h        |  6 +-
>  arch/x86/kvm/mmu/spte.c               | 43 ++++++++----
>  arch/x86/kvm/mmu/spte.h               | 17 +++--
>  arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c            | 97 +++++++++++++++++++++------
>  arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.h            |  5 +-
>  arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c                |  8 +++
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c                | 40 ++++++-----
>  include/linux/kvm_host.h              | 10 +--
>  virt/kvm/kvm_main.c                   | 12 ++--
>  15 files changed, 205 insertions(+), 101 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.34.0.rc1.387.gb447b232ab-goog
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