From: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: "Dan Williams" <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
"Dave Jiang" <dave.jiang@intel.com>,
"Ross Zwisler" <zwisler@kernel.org>,
"Vishal Verma" <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>,
"Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>,
"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@redhat.com>,
"Borislav Petkov" <bp@alien8.de>,
linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
x86@kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, yu.c.zhang@intel.com,
yi.z.zhang@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] kvm: Use huge pages for DAX-backed files
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 11:21:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181113112148.6205fc56@gnomeregan.cam.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <861c4adb-e2f0-2caf-8f6e-9f09ecb0b624@redhat.com>
On 2018-11-12 at 20:31 Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
> Looks good. What's the plan for removing PageReserved from DAX pages?
I hear that's going on in this thread:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/154145268025.30046.11742652345962594283.stgit@ahduyck-desk1.jf.intel.com/
Though it looks like it's speeding up page initialization, and not
explicitly making the PageReserved change, yet.
Alternatively, I could change kvm_is_reserved_pfn() to single out
zone_device pages if we don't want to wait or if there is a concern
that it won't happen.
On a related note, there are two places in KVM where we check
PageReserved outside of kvm_is_reserved_pfn().
For reference:
bool kvm_is_reserved_pfn(kvm_pfn_t pfn)
{
if (pfn_valid(pfn))
return PageReserved(pfn_to_page(pfn));
return true;
}
One caller of PageReserved():
void kvm_set_pfn_dirty(kvm_pfn_t pfn)
{
if (!kvm_is_reserved_pfn(pfn)) {
struct page *page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
if (!PageReserved(page))
SetPageDirty(page);
}
}
In that one, the PageReserved() check looks redundant, since if the
page was PageReserved, then it would have been kvm_is_reserved.
The other is:
static bool kvm_is_mmio_pfn(kvm_pfn_t pfn)
{
if (pfn_valid(pfn))
return !is_zero_pfn(pfn) && PageReserved(pfn_to_page(pfn)) &&
/*
* Some reserved pages, such as those from NVDIMM
* DAX devices, are not for MMIO, and can be mapped
* with cached memory type for better performance.
* However, the above check misconceives those pages
* as MMIO, and results in KVM mapping them with UC
* memory type, which would hurt the performance.
* Therefore, we check the host memory type in addition
* and only treat UC/UC-/WC pages as MMIO.
*/
(!pat_enabled() || pat_pfn_immune_to_uc_mtrr(pfn));
return true;
}
Where the PAT stuff was motivated by DAX. The PageReserved check here
looks like a broken-out version of kvm_is_reserved_pfn(), so that we can
make some extra checks around it.
Anyway, I can get rid of those two PageReserved checks and/or have
kvm_is_reserved_pfn() just check DAX pages, if everyone is OK with that.
Thanks,
Barret
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-13 16:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-09 20:39 [PATCH 0/2] kvm: Use huge pages for DAX-backed files Barret Rhoden
2018-11-09 20:39 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm: make dev_pagemap_mapping_shift() externally visible Barret Rhoden
2018-11-13 9:28 ` David Hildenbrand
2018-11-09 20:39 ` [PATCH 2/2] kvm: Use huge pages for DAX-backed files Barret Rhoden
2018-11-12 19:31 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-11-13 16:21 ` Barret Rhoden [this message]
2018-11-13 18:22 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-11-13 9:36 ` David Hildenbrand
2018-11-13 10:02 ` Pankaj Gupta
2018-11-13 12:41 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-11-13 15:56 ` Barret Rhoden
2018-11-14 9:09 ` Pankaj Gupta
2018-11-13 15:50 ` Barret Rhoden
2018-11-14 21:51 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] " Barret Rhoden
2018-11-14 21:51 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] mm: make dev_pagemap_mapping_shift() externally visible Barret Rhoden
2018-11-26 16:50 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-11-26 18:32 ` Dan Williams
2018-11-14 21:51 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] kvm: Use huge pages for DAX-backed files Barret Rhoden
2018-11-14 21:51 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] kvm: remove redundant PageReserved() check Barret Rhoden
2018-11-27 13:31 ` David Hildenbrand
2018-11-15 0:55 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] kvm: Use huge pages for DAX-backed files Dan Williams
2018-12-03 17:40 ` Barret Rhoden
2018-12-03 18:32 ` Alexander Duyck
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