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Use the recently introduced kvm_mmu_zap_oldest_mmu_pages() to batch zap MMU pages when shrinking a slab. This fixes a long standing issue where KVM's shrinker implementation is completely ineffective due to zapping only a single page. E.g. without batch zapping, forcing a scan via drop_caches basically has no impact on a VM with ~2k shadow pages. With batch zapping, the number of shadow pages can be reduced to a few hundred pages in one or two runs of drop_caches. Note, if the default batch size (currently 128) is problematic, e.g. zapping 128 pages holds mmu_lock for too long, KVM can bound the batch size by setting @batch in mmu_shrinker. Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Message-Id: <20200623193542.7554-4-sean.j.christopherson@intel.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.