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| author | Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp> | 2012-07-02 17:56:33 +0900 |
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| committer | Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> | 2012-07-18 16:55:04 -0300 |
| commit | b3ae2096974b12c3af2ad1a4e7716b084949867f (patch) | |
| tree | 38ca81ac607cec1c00d6961effb38992577114df /virt/kvm | |
| parent | 84504ef38673fa021b3d8f3da2b79cf878b33315 (diff) | |
| download | linux-b3ae2096974b12c3af2ad1a4e7716b084949867f.tar.gz | |
KVM: Introduce kvm_unmap_hva_range() for kvm_mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start()
When we tested KVM under memory pressure, with THP enabled on the host, we noticed that MMU notifier took a long time to invalidate huge pages. Since the invalidation was done with mmu_lock held, it not only wasted the CPU but also made the host harder to respond. This patch mitigates this by using kvm_handle_hva_range(). Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'virt/kvm')
| -rw-r--r-- | virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c index b3ce91c623e2..e2b1a159e5df 100644 --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c @@ -332,8 +332,7 @@ static void kvm_mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(struct mmu_notifier *mn, * count is also read inside the mmu_lock critical section. */ kvm->mmu_notifier_count++; - for (; start < end; start += PAGE_SIZE) - need_tlb_flush |= kvm_unmap_hva(kvm, start); + need_tlb_flush = kvm_unmap_hva_range(kvm, start, end); need_tlb_flush |= kvm->tlbs_dirty; /* we've to flush the tlb before the pages can be freed */ if (need_tlb_flush) |