Currently, during the operations such as a hugepage collapse, KVM would flush the entire VM's context using 'vmalls12e1is' TLBI operation. Specifically, if the VM is faulting on many hugepages (say after dirty-logging), it creates a performance penalty for the guest whose pages have already been faulted earlier as they would have to refill their TLBs again. Instead, leverage kvm_tlb_flush_vmid_range() for table entries. If the system supports it, only the required range will be flushed. Else, it'll fallback to the previous mechanism. Signed-off-by: Raghavendra Rao Ananta <rananta@google.com> Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Shaoqin Huang <shahuang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230811045127.3308641-14-rananta@google.com
Linux kernel ============ 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.
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