David S. Ahern wrote:
> Avi Kivity wrote:
>
>> David S. Ahern wrote:
>>
>>> I added the traces and captured data over another apparent lockup of
>>> the guest.
>>> This seems to be representative of the sequence (pid/vcpu removed).
>>>
>>> (+4776)  VMEXIT         [ exitcode = 0x00000000, rip = 0x00000000
>>> c016127c ]
>>> (+   0)  PAGE_FAULT     [ errorcode = 0x00000003, virt = 0x00000000
>>> c0009db4 ]
>>> (+3632)  VMENTRY
>>> (+4552)  VMEXIT         [ exitcode = 0x00000000, rip = 0x00000000
>>> c016104a ]
>>> (+   0)  PAGE_FAULT     [ errorcode = 0x0000000b, virt = 0x00000000
>>> fffb61c8 ]
>>> (+   54928)  VMENTRY
>>>
>> Can you oprofile the host to see where the 54K cycles are spent?
>>

Most of the cycles (~80% of that 54k+) are spent in paging64_prefetch_page():

        for (i = 0; i < PT64_ENT_PER_PAGE; ++i) {
                gpa_t pte_gpa = gfn_to_gpa(sp->gfn);
                pte_gpa += (i+offset) * sizeof(pt_element_t);

                r = kvm_read_guest_atomic(vcpu->kvm, pte_gpa, &pt,
                                          sizeof(pt_element_t));
                if (r || is_present_pte(pt))
                        sp->spt[i] = shadow_trap_nonpresent_pte;
                else
                        sp->spt[i] = shadow_notrap_nonpresent_pte;
        }

This loop is run 512 times and takes a total of ~45k cycles, or ~88 cycles per
loop.

This function gets run >20,000/sec during some of the kscand loops.

david

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