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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
	Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, asias.hejun@gmail.com, gorcunov@gmail.com,
	prasadjoshi124@gmail.com,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	takuya.yoshikawa@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/8] kvm tools: Add rwlock wrapper
Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 16:10:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110530141058.GA12360@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DE38C50.404@redhat.com>


* Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 05/30/2011 03:20 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >How does this work in practice - i thought we memset() all of RAM
> >during guest kernel bootup. That might have changed with the memblock
> >allocator ... So the guest kernel does not touch all of that 64 GB of
> >RAM, so your box wont OOM straight away?
> 
> IIRC there never was a memset() of all RAM, at least since kvm 
> started booting Linux. [...]

Hm, bootmem used to do a memset().

> [...]  Windows has a zeroing thread which causes all of RAM to be 
> committed shortly after boot, though.

heh, maybe they read lkml and copied my ancient idea:

  http://people.redhat.com/mingo/clearpage-patches/clearpage-2.3.18-J1

An earlier version had a 'zerod' (page zeroing kernel thread).

This was one of my more stupid ideas btw.

Thanks,

	Ingo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-05-30 14:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-30  8:30 [PATCH v2 1/8] kvm tools: Use correct value for user signal base Sasha Levin
2011-05-30  8:30 ` [PATCH v2 2/8] kvm tools: Remove wrong global definition of kvm Sasha Levin
2011-05-30  8:38   ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30  8:59     ` Sasha Levin
2011-05-30  8:30 ` [PATCH v2 3/8] kvm tools: Allow pausing guests Sasha Levin
2011-05-30  8:39   ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30  8:30 ` [PATCH v2 4/8] kvm tools: Pause/resume guest using SIGUSR2 Sasha Levin
2011-05-30  8:41   ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30  8:30 ` [PATCH v2 5/8] kvm tools: Add a brlock Sasha Levin
2011-05-30  8:30 ` [PATCH v2 6/8] kvm tools: Add rwlock wrapper Sasha Levin
2011-05-30  8:43   ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30  9:29     ` Pekka Enberg
2011-05-30  9:34       ` Sasha Levin
2011-05-30  9:40         ` Pekka Enberg
2011-05-30  9:46           ` Sasha Levin
2011-05-30  9:48             ` Pekka Enberg
2011-05-30  9:54               ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30 11:11                 ` Takuya Yoshikawa
2011-05-30 11:12                   ` Sasha Levin
2011-05-30 11:26                     ` Takuya Yoshikawa
2011-05-30 11:39                       ` Avi Kivity
2011-05-30 11:49                         ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30 11:55                           ` Pekka Enberg
2011-05-30 11:58                             ` Sasha Levin
2011-05-30 12:20                               ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30 12:22                                 ` Sasha Levin
2011-05-30 12:25                                   ` Avi Kivity
2011-05-30 12:23                                 ` Avi Kivity
2011-05-30 12:30                                   ` Pekka Enberg
2011-05-30 12:32                                     ` Avi Kivity
2011-05-30 14:10                                   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2011-05-30 14:30                                     ` Avi Kivity
2011-05-30 14:43                                       ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30 14:50                                         ` Avi Kivity
2011-05-30 19:32                                           ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30 12:04                           ` Avi Kivity
2011-05-30 12:36                             ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30 12:44                               ` Avi Kivity
2011-05-30 12:46                                 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-05-30 12:48                                   ` Avi Kivity
2011-05-30 13:05                               ` Sasha Levin
2011-06-03  7:27                               ` Sasha Levin
2011-06-03  7:34                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-06-03  7:54                                   ` Sasha Levin
2011-06-03 19:31                                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-06-03 19:56                                       ` Sasha Levin
2011-06-03 20:22                                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-06-03 21:03                                           ` Sasha Levin
2011-06-03 21:20                                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-06-03 22:54                                               ` Sasha Levin
2011-06-03 23:05                                                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-06-04  6:26                                                   ` Sasha Levin
2011-06-04 16:30                                                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-06-14 22:26                                                       ` Sasha Levin
2011-06-14 23:42                                                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-06-15  1:25                                                           ` Sasha Levin
2011-06-15  4:22                                                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-06-05 12:12                               ` Avi Kivity
2011-05-30 14:16                           ` Takuya Yoshikawa
2011-05-30  9:56             ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30 10:05               ` Sasha Levin
2011-05-30 10:13                 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30 10:22                   ` Sasha Levin
2011-05-30 10:30                     ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30 10:41                       ` Sasha Levin
2011-05-30  8:30 ` [PATCH v2 7/8] kvm tools: Add debug mode to brlock Sasha Levin
2011-05-30  8:30 ` [PATCH v2 8/8] kvm tools: Use brlock in MMIO and IOPORT Sasha Levin
2011-05-30  8:47   ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30  8:56     ` Sasha Levin
2011-05-30  8:35 ` [PATCH v2 1/8] kvm tools: Use correct value for user signal base Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30  8:40   ` Sasha Levin
2011-05-30  8:49     ` Ingo Molnar

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