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    KVM: x86/mmu: Complete prefetch for trailing SPTEs for direct, legacy MMU · c6cecc4b
    Sean Christopherson authored
    Make a final call to direct_pte_prefetch_many() if there are "trailing"
    SPTEs to prefetch, i.e. SPTEs for GFNs following the faulting GFN.  The
    call to direct_pte_prefetch_many() in the loop only handles the case
    where there are !PRESENT SPTEs preceding a PRESENT SPTE.
    
    E.g. if the faulting GFN is a multiple of 8 (the prefetch size) and all
    SPTEs for the following GFNs are !PRESENT, the loop will terminate with
    "start = sptep+1" and not prefetch any SPTEs.
    
    Prefetching trailing SPTEs as intended can drastically reduce the number
    of guest page faults, e.g. accessing the first byte of every 4kb page in
    a 6gb chunk of virtual memory, in a VM with 8gb of preallocated memory,
    the number of pf_fixed events observed in L0 drops from ~1.75M to <0.27M.
    
    Note, this only affects memory that is backed by 4kb pages as KVM doesn't
    prefetch when installing hugepages.  Shadow paging prefetching is not
    affected as it does not batch the prefetches due to the need to process
    the corresponding guest PTE.  The TDP MMU is not affected because it
    doesn't have prefetching, yet...
    
    Fixes: 957ed9ef ("KVM: MMU: prefetch ptes when intercepted guest #PF")
    Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@google.com>
    Cc: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
    Message-Id: <20210818235615.2047588-1-seanjc@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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