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Thread creation requires taking the mmap_sem in write mode, which causes vCPU threads running in guest mode to block while they are populating memory. Fix this by waiting for all vCPU threads to be created and start running before entering guest mode on any one vCPU thread. This substantially improves the "Populate memory time" when using 1GiB pages since it allows all vCPUs to zero pages in parallel rather than blocking because a writer is waiting (which is waiting for another vCPU that is busy zeroing a 1GiB page). Before: $ ./dirty_log_perf_test -v256 -s anonymous_hugetlb_1gb ... Populate memory time: 52.811184013s After: $ ./dirty_log_perf_test -v256 -s anonymous_hugetlb_1gb ... Populate memory time: 10.204573342s Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com> Message-Id: <20211111001257.1446428-4-dmatlack@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.