KVM: x86/mmu: Always drop mmu_lock to allocate TDP MMU SPs for eager splitting
Always drop mmu_lock to allocate shadow pages in the TDP MMU when doing eager page splitting. Dropping mmu_lock during eager page splitting is cheap since KVM does not have to flush remote TLBs, and avoids stalling vCPU threads that are taking page faults while KVM is eager splitting under mmu_lock held for write. This change reduces 20%+ dips in MySQL throughput during live migration in a 160 vCPU VM while userspace is issuing CLEAR_DIRTY_LOG ioctls (tested with 1GiB and 8GiB CLEARs). Userspace could issue finer-grained CLEARs, which would also reduce contention on mmu_lock, but doing so will increase the rate of remote TLB flushing, since KVM must flush TLBs before returning from CLEAR_DITY_LOG. When there isn't contention on mmu_lock[1], this change does not regress the time it takes to perform eager page splitting (the cost of releasing and re-acquiring an uncontended lock is minimal on x86). [1] Tested with dirty_log_perf_test, which does not run vCPUs during eager page splitting, and with a 16 vCPU VM Live Migration with manual-protect disabled (where mmu_lock is held for read). Cc: Bibo Mao <maobibo@loongson.cn> Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240611220512.2426439-2-dmatlack@google.comSigned-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
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