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From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Lieven <pl@kamp.de>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kwolf@redhat.com,
	peter.maydell@linaro.org, mst@redhat.com, mreitz@redhat.com,
	kraxel@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 03/15] coroutine-ucontext: reduce stack size to 64kB
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 11:57:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160628105707.GG2243@work-vm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c029bea3-3455-da8a-4a42-415c31467155@redhat.com>

* Paolo Bonzini (pbonzini@redhat.com) wrote:
> 
> 
> On 28/06/2016 11:01, Peter Lieven wrote:
> > evaluation with the recently introduced maximum stack size monitoring revealed
> > that the actual used stack size was never above 4kB so allocating 1MB stack
> > for each coroutine is a lot of wasted memory. So reduce the stack size to
> > 64kB which should still give enough head room.
> 
> If we make the stack this much smaller, there is a non-zero chance of
> smashing it.  You must add a guard page if you do this (actually more
> than one because QEMU will happily have stack frames as big as 16 KB).
> The stack counts for RSS but it's not actually allocated memory, so why
> does it matter?

I think I'd be interested in seeing the /proc/.../smaps before and after this
change to see if anything is visible and if we can see the difference
in rss etc.

Dave

> 
> Paolo
--
Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK

  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-28 10:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-28  9:01 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/15] optimize Qemu RSS usage Peter Lieven
2016-06-28  9:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/15] coroutine-ucontext: mmap stack memory Peter Lieven
2016-06-28 10:02   ` Peter Maydell
2016-06-28 10:21     ` Peter Lieven
2016-06-28 11:04   ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-06-28  9:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 02/15] coroutine-ucontext: add a switch to monitor maximum stack size Peter Lieven
2016-06-28  9:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 03/15] coroutine-ucontext: reduce stack size to 64kB Peter Lieven
2016-06-28 10:54   ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-06-28 10:57     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert [this message]
2016-06-28 11:17       ` Peter Lieven
2016-06-28 11:35         ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2016-06-28 12:09           ` Peter Lieven
2016-06-28 14:20             ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2016-06-30  6:34               ` Peter Lieven
2016-06-28 11:13     ` Peter Lieven
2016-06-28 11:26       ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-06-28  9:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 04/15] coroutine: add a knob to disable the shared release pool Peter Lieven
2016-06-28 10:41   ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-06-28 10:47     ` Peter Lieven
2016-06-28  9:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 05/15] util: add a helper to mmap private anonymous memory Peter Lieven
2016-10-16  2:10   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-10-18 13:50     ` Alex Bennée
2016-06-28  9:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/15] exec: use mmap for subpages Peter Lieven
2016-06-28 10:48   ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-06-28  9:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 07/15] qapi: use mmap for QmpInputVisitor Peter Lieven
2016-06-28  9:29   ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2016-06-28  9:39     ` Peter Lieven
2016-06-28 10:10       ` Daniel P. Berrange
2016-06-28 10:17         ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2016-06-28 10:21           ` Daniel P. Berrange
2016-06-28 14:10           ` Eric Blake
2016-06-28 11:36   ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-06-28 14:14     ` Eric Blake
2016-06-30 14:12   ` Markus Armbruster
2016-07-04  9:02     ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-07-04 11:18       ` Markus Armbruster
2016-07-04 11:36         ` Peter Lieven
2016-07-04 11:42         ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-06-28  9:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 08/15] virtio: use mmap for VirtQueue Peter Lieven
2016-06-28  9:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 09/15] loader: use mmap for ROMs Peter Lieven
2016-06-28 10:41   ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-06-28 11:26     ` Peter Lieven
2016-07-04  7:30     ` Peter Lieven
2016-06-28  9:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/15] vmware_svga: use mmap for scratch pad Peter Lieven
2016-06-28  9:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 11/15] qom: use mmap for bigger Objects Peter Lieven
2016-06-28 10:08   ` Daniel P. Berrange
2016-06-28 10:10   ` Peter Maydell
2016-06-28 10:19     ` Peter Lieven
2016-06-28 10:42   ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-06-28 10:49     ` Peter Lieven
2016-06-30 14:15       ` Markus Armbruster
2016-06-28  9:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 12/15] util: add a function to realloc mmapped memory Peter Lieven
2016-06-28  9:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 13/15] exec: use mmap for PhysPageMap->nodes Peter Lieven
2016-06-28 10:43   ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-06-28 10:48     ` Peter Lieven
2016-07-11  9:31     ` Peter Lieven
2016-07-11  9:44       ` Peter Lieven
2016-07-11 10:37       ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-07-12 14:34         ` Peter Lieven
2016-07-13 10:27           ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-07-14 14:47             ` Peter Lieven
2016-06-28  9:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 14/15] vnc-tight: make the encoding palette static Peter Lieven
2016-06-28 11:12   ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-06-28 11:18     ` Peter Lieven
2016-06-28  9:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 15/15] vnc: use mmap for VncState Peter Lieven
2016-06-28 11:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/15] optimize Qemu RSS usage Paolo Bonzini
2016-06-28 12:14   ` Peter Lieven
2016-06-28 12:29     ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-06-28 12:33       ` Peter Lieven
2016-06-28 12:56         ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-06-28 12:56         ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2016-06-28 14:43           ` Peter Lieven
2016-06-28 14:52             ` Peter Lieven
2016-10-12 21:18 ` Michael R. Hines
2016-10-18 10:47   ` Peter Lieven
2016-10-19 17:40     ` Michael R. Hines
2016-10-31 22:00     ` Michael R. Hines
2016-11-01 22:02       ` Michael R. Hines

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