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authorTakuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>2010-10-27 18:23:54 +0900
committerAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>2011-01-12 11:28:46 +0200
commit515a01279a187415322a80736800a7d6325876ab (patch)
tree8690a1b26013cb385b9d143c83301bdab758dd48 /virt
parenta36a57b1a19bce17b67f5c6f43460baf664ae5fa (diff)
KVM: pre-allocate one more dirty bitmap to avoid vmalloc()
Currently x86's kvm_vm_ioctl_get_dirty_log() needs to allocate a bitmap by vmalloc() which will be used in the next logging and this has been causing bad effect to VGA and live-migration: vmalloc() consumes extra systime, triggers tlb flush, etc. This patch resolves this issue by pre-allocating one more bitmap and switching between two bitmaps during dirty logging. Performance improvement: I measured performance for the case of VGA update by trace-cmd. The result was 1.5 times faster than the original one. In the case of live migration, the improvement ratio depends on the workload and the guest memory size. In general, the larger the memory size is the more benefits we get. Note: This does not change other architectures's logic but the allocation size becomes twice. This will increase the actual memory consumption only when the new size changes the number of pages allocated by vmalloc(). Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'virt')
-rw-r--r--virt/kvm/kvm_main.c11
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 0021c2862140..27649fdaa007 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -449,8 +449,9 @@ static void kvm_destroy_dirty_bitmap(struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot)
if (!memslot->dirty_bitmap)
return;
- vfree(memslot->dirty_bitmap);
+ vfree(memslot->dirty_bitmap_head);
memslot->dirty_bitmap = NULL;
+ memslot->dirty_bitmap_head = NULL;
}
/*
@@ -537,15 +538,21 @@ static int kvm_vm_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
return 0;
}
+/*
+ * Allocation size is twice as large as the actual dirty bitmap size.
+ * This makes it possible to do double buffering: see x86's
+ * kvm_vm_ioctl_get_dirty_log().
+ */
static int kvm_create_dirty_bitmap(struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot)
{
- unsigned long dirty_bytes = kvm_dirty_bitmap_bytes(memslot);
+ unsigned long dirty_bytes = 2 * kvm_dirty_bitmap_bytes(memslot);
memslot->dirty_bitmap = vmalloc(dirty_bytes);
if (!memslot->dirty_bitmap)
return -ENOMEM;
memset(memslot->dirty_bitmap, 0, dirty_bytes);
+ memslot->dirty_bitmap_head = memslot->dirty_bitmap;
return 0;
}