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authorMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>2008-11-25 15:58:07 +0100
committerAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>2008-12-31 16:55:02 +0200
commitecc5589f19a52e7e6501fe449047b19087ae11bb (patch)
tree2b5a0273e2ce67953d8c32d5a60475aa91907815 /arch/x86/kvm
parent5319c662522db8995ff9276ba9d80549c64b294a (diff)
KVM: MMU: optimize set_spte for page sync
The write protect verification in set_spte is unnecessary for page sync. Its guaranteed that, if the unsync spte was writable, the target page does not have a write protected shadow (if it had, the spte would have been write protected under mmu_lock by rmap_write_protect before). Same reasoning applies to mark_page_dirty: the gfn has been marked as dirty via the pagefault path. The cost of hash table and memslot lookups are quite significant if the workload is pagetable write intensive resulting in increased mmu_lock contention. Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kvm')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
index fa3486d6407..dd20b199a7c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -1593,6 +1593,15 @@ static int set_spte(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 *shadow_pte,
spte |= PT_WRITABLE_MASK;
+ /*
+ * Optimization: for pte sync, if spte was writable the hash
+ * lookup is unnecessary (and expensive). Write protection
+ * is responsibility of mmu_get_page / kvm_sync_page.
+ * Same reasoning can be applied to dirty page accounting.
+ */
+ if (!can_unsync && is_writeble_pte(*shadow_pte))
+ goto set_pte;
+
if (mmu_need_write_protect(vcpu, gfn, can_unsync)) {
pgprintk("%s: found shadow page for %lx, marking ro\n",
__func__, gfn);