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Currently rmap array element only contains 3 entries. However for EPT=N there
could have a lot of guest pages that got tens of even hundreds of rmap entry.
A normal distribution of a 6G guest (even if idle) shows this with rmap count
statistics:
Rmap_Count: 0 1 2-3 4-7 8-15 16-31 32-63 64-127 128-255 256-511 512-1023
Level=4K: 3089171 49005 14016 1363 235 212 15 7 0 0 0
Level=2M: 5951 227 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Level=1G: 32 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
If we do some more fork some pages will grow even larger rmap counts.
This patch makes PTE_LIST_EXT bigger so it'll be more efficient for the general
use case of EPT=N as we do list reference less and the loops over PTE_LIST_EXT
will be slightly more efficient; but still not too large so less waste when
array not full.
It should not affecting EPT=Y since EPT normally only has zero or one rmap
entry for each page, so no array is even allocated.
With a test case to fork 500 child and recycle them ("./rmap_fork 500" [1]),
this patch speeds up fork time of about 29%.
Before: 473.90 (+-5.93%)
After: 366.10 (+-4.94%)
[1] 825436f825
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210730220455.26054-6-peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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