From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com> To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>, Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, rkrcmar@redhat.com, x86@kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, bp@alien8.de, hpa@zytor.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de, akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/4] kvm: Add guest side support for free memory hints Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 08:31:34 -0800 Message-ID: <869a170e9232ffbc8ddbcf3d15535e8c6daedbde.camel@linux.intel.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <20190209194437-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> On Sat, 2019-02-09 at 19:49 -0500, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 10:15:52AM -0800, Alexander Duyck wrote: > > From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com> > > > > Add guest support for providing free memory hints to the KVM hypervisor for > > freed pages huge TLB size or larger. I am restricting the size to > > huge TLB order and larger because the hypercalls are too expensive to be > > performing one per 4K page. > > Even 2M pages start to get expensive with a TB guest. Agreed. > Really it seems we want a virtio ring so we can pass a batch of these. > E.g. 256 entries, 2M each - that's more like it. The only issue I see with doing that is that we then have to defer the freeing. Doing that is going to introduce issues in the guest as we are going to have pages going unused for some period of time while we wait for the hint to complete, and we cannot just pull said pages back. I'm not really a fan of the asynchronous nature of Nitesh's patches for this reason. > > Using the huge TLB order became the obvious > > choice for the order to use as it allows us to avoid fragmentation of higher > > order memory on the host. > > > > I have limited the functionality so that it doesn't work when page > > poisoning is enabled. I did this because a write to the page after doing an > > MADV_DONTNEED would effectively negate the hint, so it would be wasting > > cycles to do so. > > Again that's leaking host implementation detail into guest interface. > > We are giving guest page hints to host that makes sense, > weird interactions with other features due to host > implementation details should be handled by host. I don't view this as a host implementation detail, this is guest feature making use of all pages for debugging. If we are placing poison values in the page then I wouldn't consider them an unused page, it is being actively used to store the poison value. If we can achieve this and free the page back to the host then even better, but until the features can coexist we should not use the page hinting while page poisoning is enabled. This is one of the reasons why I was opposed to just disabling page poisoning when this feature was enabled in Nitesh's patches. If the guest has page poisoning enabled it is doing something with the page. It shouldn't be prevented from doing that because the host wants to have the option to free the pages.
next prev parent reply index Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2019-02-04 18:15 [RFC PATCH 0/4] kvm: Report unused guest pages to host Alexander Duyck 2019-02-04 18:15 ` [RFC PATCH 1/4] madvise: Expose ability to set dontneed from kernel Alexander Duyck 2019-02-04 18:15 ` [RFC PATCH 2/4] kvm: Add host side support for free memory hints Alexander Duyck 2019-02-10 0:44 ` Michael S. Tsirkin 2019-02-11 17:34 ` Alexander Duyck 2019-02-11 17:36 ` Michael S. Tsirkin 2019-02-11 17:41 ` Dave Hansen 2019-02-11 17:48 ` Michael S. Tsirkin 2019-02-11 18:30 ` Alexander Duyck 2019-02-11 19:24 ` Michael S. Tsirkin 2019-02-04 18:15 ` [RFC PATCH 3/4] kvm: Add guest " Alexander Duyck 2019-02-04 19:44 ` Dave Hansen 2019-02-04 20:42 ` Alexander Duyck 2019-02-04 23:00 ` Nadav Amit 2019-02-04 23:37 ` Alexander Duyck 2019-02-05 0:03 ` Nadav Amit 2019-02-05 0:16 ` Alexander Duyck 2019-02-05 1:46 ` Nadav Amit 2019-02-05 18:09 ` Alexander Duyck 2019-02-07 18:21 ` Luiz Capitulino 2019-02-07 18:44 ` Alexander Duyck 2019-02-07 20:02 ` Luiz Capitulino 2019-02-08 21:05 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal 2019-02-08 21:31 ` Alexander Duyck 2019-02-10 0:49 ` Michael S. Tsirkin 2019-02-11 16:31 ` Alexander Duyck [this message] 2019-02-11 17:36 ` Michael S. Tsirkin 2019-02-11 18:10 ` Alexander Duyck 2019-02-11 19:54 ` Michael S. Tsirkin 2019-02-11 21:00 ` Alexander Duyck 2019-02-11 22:52 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [not found] ` <94462313ccd927d25675f69de459456cf066c1a2.camel@linux.intel.com> 2019-02-12 0:34 ` Michael S. Tsirkin 2019-02-11 17:48 ` Dave Hansen 2019-02-11 17:58 ` Michael S. Tsirkin 2019-02-11 18:19 ` Dave Hansen 2019-02-11 19:56 ` Michael S. Tsirkin 2019-02-04 18:15 ` [RFC PATCH 4/4] mm: Add merge page notifier Alexander Duyck 2019-02-04 19:40 ` Dave Hansen 2019-02-04 19:51 ` Alexander Duyck 2019-02-10 0:57 ` Michael S. Tsirkin 2019-02-11 13:30 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal 2019-02-11 14:17 ` Michael S. Tsirkin 2019-02-11 16:24 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal 2019-02-11 17:41 ` Michael S. Tsirkin 2019-02-11 18:09 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal 2019-02-11 6:40 ` Aaron Lu 2019-02-11 15:58 ` Alexander Duyck 2019-02-12 2:09 ` Aaron Lu 2019-02-12 17:20 ` Alexander Duyck 2019-02-04 18:19 ` [RFC PATCH QEMU] i386/kvm: Enable paravirtual unused page hint mechanism Alexander Duyck 2019-02-05 17:25 ` [RFC PATCH 0/4] kvm: Report unused guest pages to host Nitesh Narayan Lal 2019-02-05 18:43 ` Alexander Duyck 2019-02-07 14:48 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal 2019-02-07 16:56 ` Alexander Duyck 2019-02-10 0:51 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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