KVM: X86: MMU: Tune PTE_LIST_EXT to be bigger
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] https://github.com/xzpeter/clibs/commit/825436f825453de2ea5aaee4bdb1c92281efe5b3Signed-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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