Add an option to overlap the ranges of memory each vCPU accesses instead
of partitioning them. This option will increase the probability of
multiple vCPUs faulting on the same page at the same time, and causing
interesting races, if there are bugs in the page fault handler or
elsewhere in the kernel.
Reviewed-by: Jacob Xu <jacobhxu@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Makarand Sonare <makarandsonare@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Message-Id: <20210112214253.463999-6-bgardon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Peter Xu pointed out that a log message printed while waiting for the
memory population phase of the dirty_log_perf_test will flood the debug
logs as there is no delay after printing the message. Since the message
does not provide much value anyway, remove it.
Reviewed-by: Jacob Xu <jacobhxu@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Message-Id: <20210112214253.463999-3-bgardon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Nothing sets USE_CLEAR_DIRTY_LOG anymore, so anything it surrounds
is dead code.
However, it is the recommended way to use the dirty page bitmap
for new enough kernel, so use it whenever KVM has the
KVM_CAP_MANUAL_DIRTY_LOG_PROTECT2 capability.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Even though one iteration is not enough for the dirty log performance
test (due to the cost of building page tables, zeroing memory etc.)
two is okay and it is the default. Without this patch,
"./dirty_log_perf_test" without any further arguments fails.
Cc: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The dirty log perf test will time verious dirty logging operations
(enabling dirty logging, dirtying memory, getting the dirty log,
clearing the dirty log, and disabling dirty logging) in order to
quantify dirty logging performance. This test can be used to inform
future performance improvements to KVM's dirty logging infrastructure.
This series was tested by running the following invocations on an Intel
Skylake machine:
dirty_log_perf_test -b 20m -i 100 -v 64
dirty_log_perf_test -b 20g -i 5 -v 4
dirty_log_perf_test -b 4g -i 5 -v 32
demand_paging_test -b 20m -v 64
demand_paging_test -b 20g -v 4
demand_paging_test -b 4g -v 32
All behaved as expected.
Signed-off-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Message-Id: <20201027233733.1484855-6-bgardon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
