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Re: [Qemu-devel] linux guests and ksm performance
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Avi Kivity |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] linux guests and ksm performance |
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Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:56:21 +0200 |
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On 02/28/2012 03:20 PM, Peter Lieven wrote:
> On 28.02.2012 14:16, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> On 02/24/2012 08:41 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>>>> I dont think that it is cpu intense. All user pages are zeroed
>>>> anyway, but at allocation time it shouldnt be a big difference in
>>>> terms of cpu power.
>>> It's easy to find a scenario where eagerly zeroing pages is wasteful.
>>> Imagine a process that uses all of physical memory. Once it
>>> terminates the system is going to run processes that only use a small
>>> set of pages. It's pointless zeroing all those pages if we're not
>>> going to use them anymore.
>> In the long term, we will use them, except if the guest is completely
>> idle.
>>
>> The scenario in which zeroing is expensive is when the page is refilled
>> through DMA. In that case the zeroing was wasted. This is a pretty
>> common scenario in pagecache intensive workloads.
>>
> Avi, what do you think of the proposal to give the guest vm a hint
> that the host is running ksm? In that case the administrator
> has already chosen that saving physical memory is more important
> than performance to him?
It makes some sense. Perhaps through the balloon device, a flag that
indicates that voluntary ballooning will be gratefully accepted.
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] linux guests and ksm performance, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] linux guests and ksm performance, Javier Guerra Giraldez, 2012/02/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] linux guests and ksm performance, address@hidden, 2012/02/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] linux guests and ksm performance, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2012/02/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] linux guests and ksm performance, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2012/02/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] linux guests and ksm performance, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2012/02/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] linux guests and ksm performance, Peter Lieven, 2012/02/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] linux guests and ksm performance, Peter Lieven, 2012/02/28
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] linux guests and ksm performance, Peter Lieven, 2012/02/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] linux guests and ksm performance, Avi Kivity, 2012/02/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] linux guests and ksm performance, Peter Lieven, 2012/02/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] linux guests and ksm performance,
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Re: [Qemu-devel] linux guests and ksm performance, Gleb Natapov, 2012/02/24
Re: [Qemu-devel] linux guests and ksm performance, Avi Kivity, 2012/02/28