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Using "-mem-prealloc" option for a large guest leads to higher guest start-up and migration time. This is because with "-mem-prealloc" option qemu tries to map every guest page (create address translations), and make sure the pages are available during runtime. virsh/libvirt by default, seems to use "-mem-prealloc" option in case the guest is configured to use huge pages. The patch tries to map all guest pages simultaneously by spawning multiple threads. Currently limiting the change to QEMU library functions on POSIX compliant host only, as we are not sure if the problem exists on win32. Below are some stats with "-mem-prealloc" option for guest configured to use huge pages. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Idle Guest | Start-up time | Migration time ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Guest stats with 2M HugePage usage - single threaded (existing code) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 64 Core - 4TB | 54m11.796s | 75m43.843s 64 Core - 1TB | 8m56.576s | 14m29.049s 64 Core - 256GB | 2m11.245s | 3m26.598s ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Guest stats with 2M HugePage usage - map guest pages using 8 threads ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 64 Core - 4TB | 5m1.027s | 34m10.565s 64 Core - 1TB | 1m10.366s | 8m28.188s 64 Core - 256GB | 0m19.040s | 2m10.148s ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Guest stats with 2M HugePage usage - map guest pages using 16 threads ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 64 Core - 4TB | 1m58.970s | 31m43.400s 64 Core - 1TB | 0m39.885s | 7m55.289s 64 Core - 256GB | 0m11.960s | 2m0.135s ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Changed in v2: - modify number of memset threads spawned to min(smp_cpus, 16). - removed 64GB memory restriction for spawning memset threads. Changed in v3: - limit number of threads spawned based on min(sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN), 16, smp_cpus) - implement memset thread specific siglongjmp in SIGBUS signal_handler. Changed in v4 - remove sigsetjmp/siglongjmp and SIGBUS unblock/block for main thread as main thread no longer touches any pages. - simplify code my returning memset_thread_failed status from touch_all_pages. Signed-off-by: Jitendra Kolhe <jitendra.kolhe@hpe.com> Message-Id: <1487907103-32350-1-git-send-email-jitendra.kolhe@hpe.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> |
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| baum.c | ||
| cryptodev-builtin.c | ||
| cryptodev.c | ||
| hostmem-file.c | ||
| hostmem-ram.c | ||
| hostmem.c | ||
| msmouse.c | ||
| rng-egd.c | ||
| rng-random.c | ||
| rng.c | ||
| testdev.c | ||
| tpm.c | ||
| trace-events | ||
| wctablet.c | ||