KVM: x86/mmu: Batch zap MMU pages when shrinking the slab

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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>

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Sean Christopherson 2020-06-23 12:35:41 -07:00 • committed by Paolo Bonzini

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