Re: About releasing vcpu when closing vcpu fd

Gu Zheng
2014-07-01T02:18:31Z

Hi Anshul,
On 06/30/2014 10:41 PM, Anshul Makkar wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Currently as per the specs for cpu_hot(un)plug, ACPI GPE Block: IO
> ports 0xafe0-0xafe3 where each bit corresponds to each CPU.
>
> Currently, EJ0 method in acpi-dsdt-cpu-hotplu.dsl doesn't do anything.
>
> Method(CPEJ, 2, NotSerialized) {
> // _EJ0 method - eject callback
> Sleep(200)
> }
>
> I want to implement a notification mechanism for CPU hotunplug just
> like we have in memory hotunplug where in we write to particular IO
> port and this read/write is caught in the memory-hotplug.c .
>
> So, just want a suggestion as to whether I should expand the IO port
> range from 0xafe0 to 0xafe4 (addition of 1 byte), where last byte is
> for notification of EJ0 event.
>
> Or if you have any other suggestion, please share.

In fact, Chen Fan has implemented this feature in his previous vcup hot remove
patchset:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-12/msg04266.html
As you know, it is based on the cleaning up kvm vcpus as you mentioned the in
previous thread, and it has not been applied for some reason.
So I am trying to respin a new one based on Chen Fan's previous patchset recently,
and if nothing else, I will send it to the community in the coming week. So if you
like, please hold on for a moment.;)

Thanks,
Gu

>
> Thanks
> Anshul Makkar
>
> On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Anshul Makkar
> <anshul.makkar@profitbricks.com> wrote:
>> Oh yes, sorry for the ambiguity. I meant proposal to "park" unplugged vcpus.
>>
>> Thanks for the suggesting the practical approach.
>>
>> Anshul Makkar
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Gleb Natapov <gleb@minantech.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 03:02:59PM +0200, Anshul Makkar wrote:
>>>> IIRC, Igor was of the opinion that patch for vcpu deletion will be
>>>> incomplete till its handled properly in kvm i.e vcpus are destroyed
>>>> completely. http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel/114347
>>>> .
>>>>
>>>> So can the above proposal where just vcpus can be disabled and
>>>> reused in qemu is an acceptable solution ?
>>>>
>>> If by "above proposal" you mean the proposal in the email you linked,
>>> then no since it tries to destroy vcpu, but does it incorrectly. If you
>>> mean proposal to "park" unplugged vcpu, so that guest will not be able
>>> to use it, then yes, it is pragmatic path forward.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Anshul Makkar
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org> wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 01:40:08PM +0800, Gu Zheng wrote:
>>>>>>>> There was a patch(from Chen Fan, last august) about releasing vcpu when
>>>>>>>> closing vcpu fd <http://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg95701.html>, but
>>>>>>>> your comment said "Attempt where made to make it possible to destroy
>>>>>>>> individual vcpus separately from destroying VM before, but they were
>>>>>>>> unsuccessful thus far."
>>>>>>>> So what is the pain here? If we want to achieve the goal, what should we do?
>>>>>>>> Looking forward to your further comments.:)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> CPU array is accessed locklessly in a lot of places, so it will have to be RCUified.
>>>>>>> There was attempt to do so 2 year or so ago, but it didn't go anyware. Adding locks is
>>>>>>> to big a price to pay for ability to free a little bit of memory by destroying vcpu.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes, it's a pain here. But if we want to implement "vcpu hot-remove", this must be
>>>>>> fixed sooner or later.
>>>>> Why? "vcpu hot-remove" already works (or at least worked in the past
>>>>> for some value of "work"). No need to destroy vcpu completely, just
>>>>> park it and tell a guest not to use it via ACPI hot unplug event.
>>>>>
>>>>>> And any guys working on kvm "vcpu hot-remove" now?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> An
>>>>>>> alternative may be to make sure that stopped vcpu takes as little memory as possible.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yeah. But if we add a new vcpu with the old id that we stopped before, it will fail.
>>>>>>
>>>>> No need to create vcpu again, just unpark it and notify a guest via ACPI hot plug event that
>>>>> vcpu can be used now.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Gleb.
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