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From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>,
	James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>,
	Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: "David Hildenbrand" <david@redhat.com>,
	"Cornelia Huck" <cohuck@redhat.com>,
	"Vitaly Kuznetsov" <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
	"Wanpeng Li" <wanpengli@tencent.com>,
	"Jim Mattson" <jmattson@google.com>,
	"Joerg Roedel" <joro@8bytes.org>,
	"James Morse" <james.morse@arm.com>,
	"Julien Thierry" <julien.thierry.kdev@gmail.com>,
	"Suzuki K Poulose" <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
	linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Christoffer Dall" <christoffer.dall@arm.com>,
	"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <f4bug@amsat.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/19] KVM: Dynamically size memslot arrays
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 12:40:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <595b5ecc-d18b-3973-7041-59e58d7f1cc7@de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191217204041.10815-1-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>



On 17.12.19 21:40, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> The end goal of this series is to dynamically size the memslot array so
> that KVM allocates memory based on the number of memslots in use, as
> opposed to unconditionally allocating memory for the maximum number of
> memslots.  On x86, each memslot consumes 88 bytes, and so with 2 address
> spaces of 512 memslots, each VM consumes ~90k bytes for the memslots.
> E.g. given a VM that uses a total of 30 memslots, dynamic sizing reduces
> the memory footprint from 90k to ~2.6k bytes.
> 
> The changes required to support dynamic sizing are relatively small,
> e.g. are essentially contained in patches 17/19 and 18/19.
> 
> Patches 2-16 clean up the memslot code, which has gotten quite crusty,
> especially __kvm_set_memory_region().  The clean up is likely not strictly
> necessary to switch to dynamic sizing, but I didn't have a remotely
> reasonable level of confidence in the correctness of the dynamic sizing
> without first doing the clean up.
> 
> The only functional change in v4 is the addition of an x86-specific bug
> fix in x86's handling of KVM_MR_MOVE.  The bug fix is not directly related
> to dynamically allocating memslots, but it has subtle and hidden conflicts
> with the cleanup patches, and the fix is higher priority than anything
> else in the series, i.e. should be merged first.
> 
> On non-x86 architectures, v3 and v4 should be functionally equivalent,
> the only non-x86 change in v4 is the dropping of a "const" in
> kvm_arch_commit_memory_region().

I gave this series a quick spin and it still seems to work on s390 (minus the selftest).


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-12-18 11:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-17 20:40 [PATCH v4 00/19] KVM: Dynamically size memslot arrays Sean Christopherson
2019-12-17 20:40 ` [PATCH v4 01/19] KVM: x86: Allocate new rmap and large page tracking when moving memslot Sean Christopherson
2019-12-17 20:48   ` Sean Christopherson
2019-12-17 20:50     ` Sean Christopherson
2019-12-17 21:56   ` Peter Xu
2019-12-17 22:20     ` Sean Christopherson
2019-12-17 22:37       ` Peter Xu
2019-12-17 20:40 ` [PATCH v4 02/19] KVM: Reinstall old memslots if arch preparation fails Sean Christopherson
2019-12-17 20:40 ` [PATCH v4 03/19] KVM: Don't free new memslot if allocation of said memslot fails Sean Christopherson
2019-12-17 20:40 ` [PATCH v4 04/19] KVM: PPC: Move memslot memory allocation into prepare_memory_region() Sean Christopherson
2019-12-17 20:40 ` [PATCH v4 05/19] KVM: x86: Allocate memslot resources during prepare_memory_region() Sean Christopherson
2019-12-17 22:07   ` Peter Xu
2019-12-17 20:40 ` [PATCH v4 06/19] KVM: Drop kvm_arch_create_memslot() Sean Christopherson
2019-12-17 20:40 ` [PATCH v4 07/19] KVM: Explicitly free allocated-but-unused dirty bitmap Sean Christopherson
2019-12-17 22:24   ` Peter Xu
2019-12-17 22:51     ` Sean Christopherson
2019-12-18 16:17       ` Peter Xu
2019-12-17 20:40 ` [PATCH v4 08/19] KVM: Refactor error handling for setting memory region Sean Christopherson
2019-12-17 20:40 ` [PATCH v4 09/19] KVM: Move setting of memslot into helper routine Sean Christopherson
2019-12-17 20:40 ` [PATCH v4 10/19] KVM: Drop "const" attribute from old memslot in commit_memory_region() Sean Christopherson
2019-12-17 20:40 ` [PATCH v4 11/19] KVM: x86: Free arrays for old memslot when moving memslot's base gfn Sean Christopherson
2019-12-17 22:48   ` Peter Xu
2019-12-17 20:40 ` [PATCH v4 12/19] KVM: Move memslot deletion to helper function Sean Christopherson
2019-12-17 20:40 ` [PATCH v4 13/19] KVM: Simplify kvm_free_memslot() and all its descendents Sean Christopherson
2019-12-17 20:40 ` [PATCH v4 14/19] KVM: Clean up local variable usage in __kvm_set_memory_region() Sean Christopherson
2019-12-17 20:40 ` [PATCH v4 15/19] KVM: Provide common implementation for generic dirty log functions Sean Christopherson
2019-12-17 20:40 ` [PATCH v4 16/19] KVM: Ensure validity of memslot with respect to kvm_get_dirty_log() Sean Christopherson
2019-12-24 18:19   ` Peter Xu
2020-01-14 18:25     ` Sean Christopherson
2020-02-06 22:03       ` Peter Xu
2020-02-07 18:52         ` Sean Christopherson
2019-12-17 20:40 ` [PATCH v4 17/19] KVM: Terminate memslot walks via used_slots Sean Christopherson
2019-12-17 20:40 ` [PATCH v4 18/19] KVM: Dynamically size memslot array based on number of used slots Sean Christopherson
2019-12-17 20:40 ` [PATCH v4 19/19] KVM: selftests: Add test for KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION Sean Christopherson
2019-12-18 11:29   ` Christian Borntraeger
2019-12-18 11:39   ` Christian Borntraeger
2019-12-18 16:39     ` Sean Christopherson
2020-03-24  9:43       ` Christian Borntraeger
2020-03-24 18:20         ` Sean Christopherson
2019-12-18 11:40 ` Christian Borntraeger [this message]
2019-12-18 18:10 ` [PATCH v4 00/19] KVM: Dynamically size memslot arrays Marc Zyngier

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