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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] migration: do not overwrite zero pages
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Alexey Kardashevskiy |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] migration: do not overwrite zero pages |
Date: |
Tue, 25 Jun 2013 00:59:51 +1000 |
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On 06/19/2013 08:10 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 06/06/2013 10:36, Peter Lieven ha scritto:
>> on incoming migration do not memset pages to zero if they already read as
>> zero.
>> this will allocate a new zero page and consume memory unnecessarily. even
>> if we madvise a MADV_DONTNEED later this will only deallocate the memory
>> asynchronously.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Peter Lieven <address@hidden>
>> ---
>> arch_init.c | 14 ++++++++------
>> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch_init.c b/arch_init.c
>> index 283081d..642f241 100644
>> --- a/arch_init.c
>> +++ b/arch_init.c
>> @@ -821,14 +821,16 @@ static int ram_load(QEMUFile *f, void *opaque, int
>> version_id)
>> }
>>
>> ch = qemu_get_byte(f);
>> - memset(host, ch, TARGET_PAGE_SIZE);
>> + if (ch != 0 || !is_zero_page(host)) {
>> + memset(host, ch, TARGET_PAGE_SIZE);
>> #ifndef _WIN32
>> - if (ch == 0 &&
>> - (!kvm_enabled() || kvm_has_sync_mmu()) &&
>> - getpagesize() <= TARGET_PAGE_SIZE) {
>> - qemu_madvise(host, TARGET_PAGE_SIZE, QEMU_MADV_DONTNEED);
>> - }
>> + if (ch == 0 &&
>> + (!kvm_enabled() || kvm_has_sync_mmu()) &&
>> + getpagesize() <= TARGET_PAGE_SIZE) {
>> + qemu_madvise(host, TARGET_PAGE_SIZE,
>> QEMU_MADV_DONTNEED);
>> + }
>> #endif
>> + }
>> } else if (flags & RAM_SAVE_FLAG_PAGE) {
>> void *host;
>>
>>
>
> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
Is it expected to reach upstream any time soon? Thanks.
--
Alexey