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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v12 5/8] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_SG
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Michael S. Tsirkin |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v12 5/8] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_SG |
Date: |
Sat, 29 Jul 2017 02:01:35 +0300 |
On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 04:25:19PM +0800, Wei Wang wrote:
> On 07/12/2017 08:40 PM, Wei Wang wrote:
> > Add a new feature, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_SG, which enables to
> > transfer a chunk of ballooned (i.e. inflated/deflated) pages using
> > scatter-gather lists to the host.
> >
> > The implementation of the previous virtio-balloon is not very
> > efficient, because the balloon pages are transferred to the
> > host one by one. Here is the breakdown of the time in percentage
> > spent on each step of the balloon inflating process (inflating
> > 7GB of an 8GB idle guest).
> >
> > 1) allocating pages (6.5%)
> > 2) sending PFNs to host (68.3%)
> > 3) address translation (6.1%)
> > 4) madvise (19%)
> >
> > It takes about 4126ms for the inflating process to complete.
> > The above profiling shows that the bottlenecks are stage 2)
> > and stage 4).
> >
> > This patch optimizes step 2) by transferring pages to the host in
> > sgs. An sg describes a chunk of guest physically continuous pages.
> > With this mechanism, step 4) can also be optimized by doing address
> > translation and madvise() in chunks rather than page by page.
> >
> > With this new feature, the above ballooning process takes ~491ms
> > resulting in an improvement of ~88%.
> >
>
>
> I found a recent mm patch, bb01b64cfab7c22f3848cb73dc0c2b46b8d38499
> , zeros all the ballooned pages, which is very time consuming.
>
> Tests show that the time to balloon 7G pages is increased from ~491 ms to
> 2.8 seconds with the above patch.
Sounds like it should be reverted. Post a revert pls and
we'll discuss.
> How about moving the zero operation to the hypervisor? In this way, we
> will have a much faster balloon process.
>
>
> Best,
> Wei
Or in other words hypervisors should not be stupid and
should not try to run ksm on DONTNEED pages.
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v12 5/8] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_SG, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v12 5/8] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_SG, Wei Wang, 2017/07/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v12 5/8] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_SG, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2017/07/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v12 5/8] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_SG, Wei Wang, 2017/07/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v12 5/8] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_SG, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2017/07/26
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v12 5/8] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_SG, Wei Wang, 2017/07/26
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v12 5/8] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_SG, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2017/07/28
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v12 5/8] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_SG, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2017/07/12
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v12 5/8] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_SG, kbuild test robot, 2017/07/12
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v12 5/8] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_SG, kbuild test robot, 2017/07/13
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v12 5/8] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_SG, Wei Wang, 2017/07/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v12 5/8] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_SG,
Michael S. Tsirkin <=
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v12 0/8] Virtio-balloon Enhancement, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2017/07/12