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Pinning one 4K page at a time is inefficient, so do it in batches of 512
instead. This is just an optimization with no functional change
intended, and in particular the driver still calls iommu_map() with the
largest physically contiguous range possible.
Add two fields in vfio_batch to remember where to start between calls to
vfio_pin_pages_remote(), and use vfio_batch_unpin() to handle remaining
pages in the batch in case of error.
qemu pins pages for guests around 8% faster on my test system, a
two-node Broadwell server with 128G memory per node. The qemu process
was bound to one node with its allocations constrained there as well.
base test
guest ---------------- ----------------
mem (GB) speedup avg sec (std) avg sec (std)
1 7.4% 0.61 (0.00) 0.56 (0.00)
2 8.3% 0.93 (0.00) 0.85 (0.00)
4 8.4% 1.46 (0.00) 1.34 (0.00)
8 8.6% 2.54 (0.01) 2.32 (0.00)
16 8.3% 4.66 (0.00) 4.27 (0.01)
32 8.3% 8.94 (0.01) 8.20 (0.01)
64 8.2% 17.47 (0.01) 16.04 (0.03)
120 8.5% 32.45 (0.13) 29.69 (0.01)
perf diff confirms less time spent in pup. Here are the top ten
functions:
Baseline Delta Abs Symbol
78.63% +6.64% clear_page_erms
1.50% -1.50% __gup_longterm_locked
1.27% -0.78% __get_user_pages
+0.76% kvm_zap_rmapp.constprop.0
0.54% -0.53% vmacache_find
0.55% -0.51% get_pfnblock_flags_mask
0.48% -0.48% __get_user_pages_remote
+0.39% slot_rmap_walk_next
+0.32% vfio_pin_map_dma
+0.26% kvm_handle_hva_range
...
Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
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