KVM: x86/mmu: Batch zap MMU pages when shrinking the slab
Use the recently introduced kvm_mmu_zap_oldest_mmu_pages() to batch zap MMU pages when shrinking a slab. This fixes a long standing issue where KVM's shrinker implementation is completely ineffective due to zapping only a single page. E.g. without batch zapping, forcing a scan via drop_caches basically has no impact on a VM with ~2k shadow pages. With batch zapping, the number of shadow pages can be reduced to a few hundred pages in one or two runs of drop_caches. Note, if the default batch size (currently 128) is problematic, e.g. zapping 128 pages holds mmu_lock for too long, KVM can bound the batch size by setting @batch in mmu_shrinker. Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Message-Id: <20200623193542.7554-4-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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