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Remove KVM's MMU shrinker and (almost) all of its related code, as the current implementation is very disruptive to VMs (if it ever runs), without providing any meaningful benefit[1]. Alternatively, KVM could repurpose its shrinker, e.g. to reclaim pages from the per-vCPU caches[2], but given that no one has complained about lack of TDP MMU support for the shrinker in the 3+ years since the TDP MMU was enabled by default, it's safe to say that there is likely no real use case for initiating reclaim of KVM's page tables from the shrinker. And while clever/cute, reclaiming the per-vCPU caches doesn't scale the same way that reclaiming in-use page table pages does. E.g. the amount of memory being used by a VM doesn't always directly correlate with the number vCPUs, and even when it does, reclaiming a few pages from per-vCPU caches likely won't make much of a dent in the VM's total memory usage, especially for VMs with huge amounts of memory. Lastly, if it turns out that there is a strong use case for dropping the per-vCPU caches, re-introducing the shrinker registration is trivial compared to the complexity of actually reclaiming pages from the caches. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Y45dldZnI6OIf+a5@google.com [2] https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20241004195540.210396-3-vipinsh@google.com Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Suggested-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com> Signed-off-by: Vipin Sharma <vipinsh@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241101201437.1604321-2-vipinsh@google.com [sean: keep zapped_obsolete_pages for now, massage changelog] Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> |
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Linux kernel
============
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 reStructuredText 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.