Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH qemu v3 01/13] memory: Postpone flatview and dispatch tree building till all devices are added

[Alexey Kardashevskiy]

On 19/09/17 00:54, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 18/09/2017 12:16, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>> Most devices use at least one address space and every time a new address
>> space is added, flat views and dispatch trees are rebuild for all address
>> spaces. This is not a problem for a relatively small amount of devices but
>> even 50 virtio-pci devices use more than 8GB of RAM.
>>
>> What happens that on every flatview/dispatch rebuild, new arrays are
>> allocated and old ones release but the release is done via RCU so until
>> an entire machine is build, they are not released.
>>
>> This wraps devices creation into memory_region_transaction_begin/commit
>> to massively reduce amount of flat view/dispatch tree (re)allocations.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <address@hidden>
>> ---
>> Changes:
>> v2:
>> * wrapped qemu_run_machine_init_done_notifiers() as well
>> ---
>>  vl.c | 9 +++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
>> index 9e62e92aea..e4f2ece590 100644
>> --- a/vl.c
>> +++ b/vl.c
>> @@ -4741,12 +4741,16 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
>>      igd_gfx_passthru();
>>  
>>      /* init generic devices */
>> +    memory_region_transaction_begin();
>> +
>>      rom_set_order_override(FW_CFG_ORDER_OVERRIDE_DEVICE);
>>      if (qemu_opts_foreach(qemu_find_opts("device"),
>>                            device_init_func, NULL, NULL)) {
>>          exit(1);
>>      }
>>  
>> +    memory_region_transaction_commit();
>> +
>>      cpu_synchronize_all_post_init();
>>  
>>      rom_reset_order_override();
>> @@ -4829,8 +4833,13 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
>>      /* TODO: once all bus devices are qdevified, this should be done
>>       * when bus is created by qdev.c */
>>      qemu_register_reset(qbus_reset_all_fn, sysbus_get_default());
>> +
>> +    memory_region_transaction_begin();
>> +
>>      qemu_run_machine_init_done_notifiers();
>>  
>> +    memory_region_transaction_commit();
>> +
>>      if (rom_check_and_register_reset() != 0) {
>>          error_report("rom check and register reset failed");
>>          exit(1);
>>
> 
> This should not be necessary given the other patches; the PCI devices
> have an empty address space at the beginning, so there are other less
> intrusive optimizations to do instead with the same effect:
> 
> 1) as a start, the "|= root->enabled" can resolve aliases.  This should
> be enough for the PCI device case.
> 
> 2) also, after patch 2 you know that the address space has no listeners
> here, so the begin/commit isn't really needed.  Instead you can use the
> open-coded loop to directly generate the FlatView.  This avoids touching
> _all_ address spaces, which is already an improvement from O(n^2) to
> O(n) rebuilds on device startup.
> 
> 3) you can consult the list (or hash table :)) of live FlatViews (which
> means you keep it live after memory_region_transaction_commit ends, and
> only clear it on the next call), and reuse an existing FlatView.  Note
> that the number of distinct FlatViews should be very few, 


I keep missing this bit - why few? Each virtio-pci device creates 2 AS,
with proxy->modern_bar and pci_dev->bus_master_container_region which are
unique and not aliases. Remember, 500 virtio devices is my test case ;)


> so feel free
> to revert from hash table to list in v4 if you prefer.
>> 4) you can skip address_space_update_topology_pass if
> QTAILQ_EMPTY(&as->listeners).  This can provide some startup speed
> improvements.
> 
> Optimizations 2/3/4 should be moved to the end of the series, or even in
> a separate post.  The first can be done in the beginning too, as you prefer.




-- 
Alexey