qemu-e2k/util
Jitendra Kolhe 1e356fc14b mem-prealloc: reduce large guest start-up and migration time.
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>
2017-03-14 13:26:36 +01:00
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acl.c
aio-posix.c async: remove unnecessary inc/dec pairs 2017-02-21 11:39:40 +00:00
aio-win32.c async: remove unnecessary inc/dec pairs 2017-02-21 11:39:40 +00:00
aiocb.c block: move AioContext, QEMUTimer, main-loop to libqemuutil 2017-02-21 11:14:07 +00:00
async.c async: remove unnecessary inc/dec pairs 2017-02-21 11:39:40 +00:00
base64.c
bitmap.c bitmap: assert that start and nr are non negative 2017-01-20 13:22:17 +01:00
bitops.c
buffer.c
bufferiszero.c
compatfd.c cpus: remove ugly cast on sigbus_handler 2017-03-03 16:40:02 +01:00
coroutine-gthread.c
coroutine-sigaltstack.c
coroutine-ucontext.c
coroutine-win32.c
crc32c.c
cutils.c util/cutils: Change qemu_strtosz*() from int64_t to uint64_t 2017-02-23 20:35:36 +01:00
envlist.c
error.c
event_notifier-posix.c event_notifier: cleanups around event_notifier_set_handler 2017-01-16 17:52:35 +01:00
event_notifier-win32.c event_notifier: cleanups around event_notifier_set_handler 2017-01-16 17:52:35 +01:00
fifo8.c migration: consolidate VMStateField.start 2017-02-13 17:27:13 +00:00
getauxval.c
hbitmap.c hbitmap: Add hbitmap_is_serializable() 2017-01-26 10:25:01 +08:00
hexdump.c
host-utils.c host-utils: Implement unsigned quadword left/right shift and unit tests 2017-01-31 10:10:14 +11:00
id.c
iohandler.c block: move AioContext, QEMUTimer, main-loop to libqemuutil 2017-02-21 11:14:07 +00:00
iov.c
keyval.c keyval: Support lists 2017-03-07 16:07:48 +01:00
lockcnt.c qemu-thread: optimize QemuLockCnt with futexes on Linux 2017-01-16 13:25:18 +00:00
log.c util/cutils: Rename qemu_strtoll(), qemu_strtoull() 2017-02-23 20:35:35 +01:00
main-loop.c cpus: remove ugly cast on sigbus_handler 2017-03-03 16:40:02 +01:00
Makefile.objs keyval: New keyval_parse() 2017-03-07 16:07:46 +01:00
memfd.c
mmap-alloc.c exec, kvm, target-ppc: Move getrampagesize() to common code 2017-03-03 11:30:59 +11:00
module.c
notify.c
osdep.c
oslib-posix.c mem-prealloc: reduce large guest start-up and migration time. 2017-03-14 13:26:36 +01:00
oslib-win32.c mem-prealloc: reduce large guest start-up and migration time. 2017-03-14 13:26:36 +01:00
path.c
qdist.c
qemu-config.c
qemu-coroutine-io.c
qemu-coroutine-lock.c coroutine-lock: make CoRwlock thread-safe and fair 2017-02-21 11:39:40 +00:00
qemu-coroutine-sleep.c block: explicitly acquire aiocontext in timers that need it 2017-02-21 11:14:08 +00:00
qemu-coroutine.c coroutine-lock: add limited spinning to CoMutex 2017-02-21 11:39:40 +00:00
qemu-error.c
qemu-openpty.c
qemu-option.c option: Tweak invalid size error message and unbreak iotest 049 2017-02-28 20:40:31 +01:00
qemu-progress.c
qemu-sockets.c io: introduce a DNS resolver API 2017-01-23 15:32:46 +00:00
qemu-thread-posix.c * QOM interface fix (Eduardo) 2017-01-20 16:42:07 +00:00
qemu-thread-win32.c * QOM interface fix (Eduardo) 2017-01-20 16:42:07 +00:00
qemu-timer-common.c
qemu-timer.c timer: use an inline function for free 2017-03-01 00:09:28 +04:00
qht.c
range.c
rcu.c
readline.c
thread-pool.c block: explicitly acquire aiocontext in aio callbacks that need it 2017-02-21 11:39:39 +00:00
throttle.c
timed-average.c
trace-events coroutine-lock: make CoMutex thread-safe 2017-02-21 11:39:40 +00:00
unicode.c
uri.c Fix documentation and some comments (article, grammar) 2017-01-24 23:26:52 +03:00
uuid.c