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From: "Zhai, Edwin" <edwin.zhai@intel.com>
To: Keir <Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, "Zhai, Edwin" <edwin.zhai@intel.com>
Subject: super page with live migration
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:45:31 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080926074531.GA12042@edwin-srv.sh.intel.com> (raw)

Keir,

As you know, we try to allocate super pages in xc_hvm_build for better 
performance in EPT case. But the same logic is missing in xc_domain_restore.

When try to add the logic, I found it is blocked by the lazy populate algorithm 
in restore -- only populating the pages received from source side rather than 
doing it at one time.

So the result is the EPT guest has performance drop after live migration:(

Do you have any plan to change the lazy populate algorithm? The purpose of it, I 
believe, is to make restore process work without guest memory layout knowledge.  

But different memory allocation process may cause some issues, such as perf drop 
after live migration.

Thanks,



-- 
best rgds,
edwin

             reply	other threads:[~2008-09-26  7:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-26  7:45 Zhai, Edwin [this message]
2008-09-26  9:03 ` super page with live migration Keir Fraser
2008-09-26  9:08   ` Tim Deegan
2008-09-26  9:28     ` Keir Fraser
2008-09-26 10:18       ` Ian Pratt
2008-09-28  6:51         ` Tian, Kevin
2008-09-28 14:16           ` Ian Pratt
2008-10-06  0:45             ` Tian, Kevin
2008-09-27  9:19   ` Zhai, Edwin

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