Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 00/16] Postcopy: Hugepage support

[Laurent Vivier]

On 06/02/2017 18:32, Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git) wrote:
> From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <address@hidden>
> 
> Hi,
>   The existing postcopy code, and the userfault kernel
> code that supports it, only works for normal anonymous memory.
> Kernel support for userfault on hugetlbfs is working
> it's way upstream; it's in the linux-mm tree,
> You can get a version at:
>    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/andrea/aa.git
> on the origin/userfault branch.
> 
> Note that while this code supports arbitrary sized hugepages,
> it doesn't make sense with pages above the few-MB region,
> so while 2MB is fine, 1GB is probably a bad idea;
> this code waits for and transmits whole huge pages, and a
> 1GB page would take about 1 second to transfer over a 10Gbps
> link - which is way too long to pause the destination for.
> 
> Dave
> 
> Dr. David Alan Gilbert (16):
>   postcopy: Transmit ram size summary word
>   postcopy: Transmit and compare individual page sizes
>   postcopy: Chunk discards for hugepages
>   exec: ram_block_discard_range
>   postcopy: enhance ram_block_discard_range for hugepages
>   Fold postcopy_ram_discard_range into ram_discard_range
>   postcopy: Record largest page size
>   postcopy: Plumb pagesize down into place helpers
>   postcopy: Use temporary for placing zero huge pages
>   postcopy: Load huge pages in one go
>   postcopy: Mask fault addresses to huge page boundary
>   postcopy: Send whole huge pages
>   postcopy: Allow hugepages
>   postcopy: Update userfaultfd.h header
>   postcopy: Check for userfault+hugepage feature
>   postcopy: Add doc about hugepages and postcopy
> 
>  docs/migration.txt                |  13 ++++
>  exec.c                            |  83 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/exec/cpu-common.h         |   2 +
>  include/exec/memory.h             |   1 -
>  include/migration/migration.h     |   3 +
>  include/migration/postcopy-ram.h  |  13 ++--
>  linux-headers/linux/userfaultfd.h |  81 +++++++++++++++++++---
>  migration/migration.c             |   1 +
>  migration/postcopy-ram.c          | 138 
> +++++++++++++++++---------------------
>  migration/ram.c                   | 109 ++++++++++++++++++------------
>  migration/savevm.c                |  32 ++++++---
>  migration/trace-events            |   2 +-
>  12 files changed, 328 insertions(+), 150 deletions(-)
> 
Tested-by: Laurent Vivier <address@hidden>

On ppc64le with 16MB hugepage size and kernel 4.10 from aa.git/userfault

Laurent