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From: Zdenek Kaspar <zkaspar82@gmail.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: "kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Bad performance since 5.9-rc1
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2020 22:26:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201222222645.0d8e96b2.zkaspar82@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <X+In2zIA40Ku19cM@google.com>

On Tue, 22 Dec 2020 09:07:39 -0800
Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 21, 2020, Zdenek Kaspar wrote:
> > [  179.364305] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 369 at
> > kvm_mmu_zap_oldest_mmu_pages+0xd1/0xe0 [kvm] [  179.365415] Call
> > Trace: [  179.365443]  paging64_page_fault+0x244/0x8e0 [kvm]
> 
> This means the shadow page zapping is occuring because KVM is hitting
> the max number of allowed MMU shadow pages.  Can you provide your
> QEMU command line?  I can reproduce the performance degredation, but
> only by deliberately overriding the max number of MMU pages via
> `-machine kvm-shadow-mem` to be an absurdly low value.
> 
> > [  179.365596]  kvm_mmu_page_fault+0x376/0x550 [kvm]
> > [  179.365725]  kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0xbaf/0x18f0 [kvm]
> > [  179.365772]  kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x203/0x520 [kvm]
> > [  179.365938]  __x64_sys_ioctl+0x338/0x720
> > [  179.365992]  do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40
> > [  179.366013]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

It's one long line, added "\" for mail readability:

qemu-system-x86_64 -machine type=q35,accel=kvm            \
-cpu host,host-cache-info=on -smp cpus=2,cores=2          \
-m size=1024 -global virtio-pci.disable-legacy=on         \
-global virtio-pci.disable-modern=off                     \
-device virtio-balloon                                    \
-device virtio-net,netdev=tap-build,mac=DE:AD:BE:EF:00:80 \
-object rng-random,filename=/dev/urandom,id=rng0          \
-device virtio-rng,rng=rng0                               \
-name build,process=qemu-build                            \
-drive file=/mnt/data/export/unix/kvm/build/openbsd-amd64.img,if=virtio,cache=none,format=raw,aio=native \
-netdev type=tap,id=tap-build,vhost=on                    \
-serial none                                              \
-parallel none                                            \
-monitor unix:/dev/shm/kvm-build.sock,server,nowait       \
-enable-kvm -daemonize -runas qemu

Z.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-22 21:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-19  3:05 Bad performance since 5.9-rc1 Zdenek Kaspar
2020-12-01  6:35 ` Zdenek Kaspar
2020-12-18 19:33   ` Zdenek Kaspar
2020-12-21 19:41     ` Sean Christopherson
2020-12-21 21:13       ` Zdenek Kaspar
2020-12-22 17:07         ` Sean Christopherson
2020-12-22 21:26           ` Zdenek Kaspar [this message]
2021-01-12 11:18             ` Zdenek Kaspar
2021-01-13 20:17               ` Sean Christopherson
2021-01-13 22:17                 ` Zdenek Kaspar
2020-12-02  0:31 ` Sean Christopherson

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