From 515a01279a187415322a80736800a7d6325876ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Takuya Yoshikawa Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 18:23:54 +0900 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti --- virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'virt') diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c index 0021c286214..27649fdaa00 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; } -- cgit v1.2.3