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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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On 03/19/2012 10:03 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 14:16 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> > > Afaik we do not use dma engines for memory migration. 
> > 
> > We don't, but I think we should. 
>
> ISTR we (the community) had this discussion once. I also seem to
> remember the general consensus being that DMA engines would mostly
> likely not be worth the effort, although I can't really recall the
> specifics.
>
> Esp. for 4k pages the setup of the offload will likely be more expensive
> than actually doing the memcpy.

If you're copying a page, yes.  If you're copying a large vma, the
per-page setup cost is likely to be very low.

Especially if you're copying across nodes.

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