[Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/5] kvm/vhost: enable durty logging during memory registration

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Currently, vga cards that allocate vga ram, register it as regular ram,
and then request dirty logging from kvm (which is required for this hack
to function correctly).  Both these operations involve memory slot
update and flush in kvm and in vhost which is a slow operation.

This was observed to slow down windows guests with a huge amount of
memory and cpu and with cirrus vga.

As a solution, this adds an explicit flag that
will enable dirty logging directly when registering
the ram. kvm then needs a single system call
to update tables for vga ram, vhost-net can simply ignore it.

This patchset only updates the cirrus vga lfb vram mapping.
Follow-up patchsets will update all the rest of the cards
and then remove vga_dirty_log_xxx completely.

This replaces the RFC patchset 'vga: flag vga ram for notifiers'.
Warning: compile-tested only.


Michael S. Tsirkin (5):
  cpu: add set_memory flag to request dirty logging
  kvm: halve number of set memory calls for vga
  vhost: skip memory which needs dirty logging
  vhost: optimize out no-change assignment
  cirrus_vga: flag on-device ram for dirty logging

 cpu-common.h    |   22 +++++++++++++++----
 exec.c          |   14 +++++++-----
 hw/cirrus_vga.c |   16 +++++++++----
 hw/vhost.c      |   61 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 kvm-all.c       |   62 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
 5 files changed, 134 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)

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