From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Shirley Ma <mashirle@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>, Shirley Ma <xma@us.ibm.com>,
David Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, sri@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
mashirle@linux.vnet.ibm.com, avi@redhat.com
Subject: kvm memory leak (Was Re: vhost-net patches)
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:46:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091028164618.GA29235@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1256661378.6745.2.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 09:36:18AM -0700, Shirley Ma wrote:
> Hello Michael,
>
> On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 17:27 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > Possibly GFP_ATOMIC allocations in vring_add_indirect are failing?
> > Is there a chance you are tight on guest memory for some reason?
> > with vhost, virtio does currently consume a bit more memory than
> > with userspace backend.
>
> I did see memory leak on host every time after exiting guest. I don't
> know where. Do you see it?
I don't see a leak specific to vhost. However, even without vhost,
starting up guest increases kmalloc-128 counter in /proc/slabinfo
and this fails to go down when qemu is killed.
Anyone else seeing this?
--
MST
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-28 16:48 UTC|newest]
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2009-10-19 22:56 ` vhost-net patches Sridhar Samudrala
2009-10-20 10:24 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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2009-10-20 11:34 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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2009-10-20 17:18 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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2009-10-20 17:33 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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2009-10-21 20:19 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
[not found] ` <OF2487602C.0F4CA77B-ON87257656.00834AC0-88257656.0083C68B@us.ibm.com>
2009-10-22 9:24 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-22 10:56 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-22 12:34 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-22 13:13 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-22 17:23 ` Shirley Ma
2009-10-22 17:32 ` Shirley Ma
2009-10-22 17:36 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-22 17:44 ` Shirley Ma
2009-10-22 17:47 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-22 17:56 ` Shirley Ma
2009-10-22 18:13 ` Shirley Ma
2009-10-22 17:43 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-22 18:00 ` Sridhar Samudrala
2009-10-23 7:12 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-23 11:04 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-23 15:02 ` Shirley Ma
2009-10-23 15:12 ` Shirley Ma
2009-10-23 16:23 ` Shirley Ma
2009-10-25 10:52 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-25 17:05 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-26 9:27 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-26 21:35 ` Shirley Ma
2009-10-26 20:05 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-26 21:34 ` Shirley Ma
2009-10-27 6:43 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-27 14:46 ` Shirley Ma
2009-10-27 15:27 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-27 16:36 ` Shirley Ma
2009-10-27 20:58 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-28 15:55 ` Shirley Ma
2009-10-28 15:39 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-28 16:45 ` Shirley Ma
2009-10-28 16:53 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-28 18:12 ` Shirley Ma
2009-10-29 7:11 ` Shirley Ma
2009-11-02 19:46 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-11-03 1:06 ` Xin, Xiaohui
2009-11-03 15:52 ` Shirley Ma
2009-10-28 20:55 ` Shirley Ma
2009-10-28 16:46 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2009-10-29 12:21 ` kvm memory leak (Was Re: vhost-net patches) Avi Kivity
2009-10-29 12:50 ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-23 19:24 ` vhost-net patches Shirley Ma
2009-10-25 9:11 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-26 21:37 ` Shirley Ma
2009-10-27 6:38 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-27 14:48 ` Shirley Ma
2009-10-28 17:46 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-10-28 18:13 ` Shirley Ma
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