KVM: arm64: Support enabling dirty log gradually in small chunks
There is already support of enabling dirty log gradually in small chunks for x86 in commit 3c9bd400 ("KVM: x86: enable dirty log gradually in small chunks"). This adds support for arm64. x86 still writes protect all huge pages when DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_ALL_SET is enabled. However, for arm64, both huge pages and normal pages can be write protected gradually by userspace. Under the Huawei Kunpeng 920 2.6GHz platform, I did some tests on 128G Linux VMs with different page size. The memory pressure is 127G in each case. The time taken of memory_global_dirty_log_start in QEMU is listed below: Page Size Before After Optimization 4K 650ms 1.8ms 2M 4ms 1.8ms 1G 2ms 1.8ms Besides the time reduction, the biggest improvement is that we will minimize the performance side effect (because of dissolving huge pages and marking memslots dirty) on guest after enabling dirty log. Signed-off-by: Keqian Zhu <zhukeqian1@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200413122023.52583-1-zhukeqian1@huawei.com
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