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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4] Add option to mlock qemu and guest memory
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Anthony Liguori |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4] Add option to mlock qemu and guest memory |
Date: |
Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:18:00 -0500 |
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Satoru Moriya <address@hidden> writes:
> In certain scenario, latency induced by paging is significant and
> memory locking is needed. Also, in the scenario with untrusted
> guests, latency improvement due to mlock is desired.
>
> This patch introduces a following new option to mlock guest and
> qemu memory:
>
> -realtime mlock=on|off
>
> Signed-off-by: Satoru Moriya <address@hidden>
> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
> Reviewed-by: Marcelo Tosatti <address@hidden>
This patch doesn't apply because you're sending it MIME encoded and the
patch has carriage returns in it. I think your mailer is badly munging
the patch.
Please send it via git-send-email directly from the repository.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
> ---
> ChangeLog:
> v4
> - Update commit message
> v3
> - Modify os_mlock() to return error code
> - Update configure_realtime() to handle return value from os_mlock()
> - Change the variable name from is_mlock to enable_mlock in
> configure_realtime()
> - Rebase qemu version 1.4.50
>
> v2
> - Change option name from -mlock to -realtime mlock=on|off
> - Rebase qemu version 1.3.91
> - Update patch description
>
> include/sysemu/os-posix.h | 1 +
> include/sysemu/os-win32.h | 5 +++++
> os-posix.c | 12 ++++++++++++
> qemu-options.hx | 13 +++++++++++++
> vl.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 5 files changed, 65 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/sysemu/os-posix.h b/include/sysemu/os-posix.h
> index 7f198e4..25d0b2a 100644
> --- a/include/sysemu/os-posix.h
> +++ b/include/sysemu/os-posix.h
> @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ void os_set_proc_name(const char *s);
> void os_setup_signal_handling(void);
> void os_daemonize(void);
> void os_setup_post(void);
> +int os_mlock(void);
>
> typedef struct timeval qemu_timeval;
> #define qemu_gettimeofday(tp) gettimeofday(tp, NULL)
> diff --git a/include/sysemu/os-win32.h b/include/sysemu/os-win32.h
> index 71f5fa0..bf8523a 100644
> --- a/include/sysemu/os-win32.h
> +++ b/include/sysemu/os-win32.h
> @@ -106,4 +106,9 @@ static inline bool is_daemonized(void)
> return false;
> }
>
> +static inline int os_mlock(void)
> +{
> + return -ENOSYS;
> +}
> +
> #endif
> diff --git a/os-posix.c b/os-posix.c
> index 5c64518..d39261d 100644
> --- a/os-posix.c
> +++ b/os-posix.c
> @@ -363,3 +363,15 @@ bool is_daemonized(void)
> {
> return daemonize;
> }
> +
> +int os_mlock(void)
> +{
> + int ret = 0;
> +
> + ret = mlockall(MCL_CURRENT | MCL_FUTURE);
> + if (ret < 0) {
> + perror("mlockall");
> + }
> +
> + return ret;
> +}
> diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
> index 06dd565..1ec9541 100644
> --- a/qemu-options.hx
> +++ b/qemu-options.hx
> @@ -2569,6 +2569,19 @@ STEXI
> Do not start CPU at startup (you must type 'c' in the monitor).
> ETEXI
>
> +DEF("realtime", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_realtime,
> + "-realtime [mlock=on|off]\n"
> + " run qemu with realtime features\n"
> + " mlock=on|off controls mlock support (default: on)\n",
> + QEMU_ARCH_ALL)
> +STEXI
> address@hidden -realtime mlock=on|off
> address@hidden -realtime
> +Run qemu with realtime features.
> +mlocking qemu and guest memory can be enabled via @option{mlock=on}
> +(enabled by default).
> +ETEXI
> +
> DEF("gdb", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_gdb, \
> "-gdb dev wait for gdb connection on 'dev'\n", QEMU_ARCH_ALL)
> STEXI
> diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
> index aeed7f4..71bbcf1 100644
> --- a/vl.c
> +++ b/vl.c
> @@ -521,6 +521,18 @@ static QemuOptsList qemu_tpmdev_opts = {
> },
> };
>
> +static QemuOptsList qemu_realtime_opts = {
> + .name = "realtime",
> + .head = QTAILQ_HEAD_INITIALIZER(qemu_realtime_opts.head),
> + .desc = {
> + {
> + .name = "mlock",
> + .type = QEMU_OPT_BOOL,
> + },
> + { /* end of list */ }
> + },
> +};
> +
> const char *qemu_get_vm_name(void)
> {
> return qemu_name;
> @@ -1420,6 +1432,20 @@ static void smp_parse(const char *optarg)
> max_cpus = smp_cpus;
> }
>
> +static void configure_realtime(QemuOpts *opts)
> +{
> + bool enable_mlock;
> +
> + enable_mlock = qemu_opt_get_bool(opts, "mlock", true);
> +
> + if (enable_mlock) {
> + if (os_mlock() < 0) {
> + fprintf(stderr, "qemu: locking memory failed\n");
> + exit(1);
> + }
> + }
> +}
> +
> /***********************************************************/
> /* USB devices */
>
> @@ -2909,6 +2935,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
> qemu_add_opts(&qemu_add_fd_opts);
> qemu_add_opts(&qemu_object_opts);
> qemu_add_opts(&qemu_tpmdev_opts);
> + qemu_add_opts(&qemu_realtime_opts);
>
> runstate_init();
>
> @@ -3878,6 +3905,13 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
> exit(1);
> }
> break;
> + case QEMU_OPTION_realtime:
> + opts = qemu_opts_parse(qemu_find_opts("realtime"), optarg,
> 0);
> + if (!opts) {
> + exit(1);
> + }
> + configure_realtime(opts);
> + break;
> default:
> os_parse_cmd_args(popt->index, optarg);
> }
> --
> 1.7.11.7