(subset) [PATCH v2] KVM: arm64: Move data barrier to end of split walk

Marc Zyngier maz at kernel.org
Thu Aug 22 07:25:08 PDT 2024


On Thu, 08 Aug 2024 17:42:43 +0000, Colton Lewis wrote:
> This DSB guarantees page table updates have been made visible to the
> hardware table walker. Moving the DSB from stage2_split_walker() to
> after the walk is finished in kvm_pgtable_stage2_split() results in a
> roughly 70% reduction in Clear Dirty Log Time in
> dirty_log_perf_test (modified to use eager page splitting) when using
> huge pages. This gain holds steady through a range of vcpus
> used (tested 1-64) and memory used (tested 1-64GB).
> 
> [...]

Applied to next, thanks!

[1/1] KVM: arm64: Move data barrier to end of split walk
      commit: 38753cbc4dca431d4354319c7481f6bd1a212baf

Cheers,

	M.
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