From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>, Peter Lieven <pl@kamp.de>,
"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
"qemu-ppc@nongnu.org" <qemu-ppc@nongnu.org>,
Wenchao Xia <xiawenc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] broken incoming migration
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:10:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51B8D5BE.7080304@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1371046299.8250.201.camel@pasglop>
Il 12/06/2013 10:11, Benjamin Herrenschmidt ha scritto:
> On Wed, 2013-06-12 at 10:00 -0400, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> The only bug we have is not a performance bug related to compression;
>> it's that writing zero pages breaks overcommit. Let's fix that, and
>> only that.
>
> Right, do we have a way to madvise "throw away" these instead ?
We already do that, but apparently that madvise is asynchronous.
> Or do we
> have a way to track that the platform init code did write something
> there and only clear *those* pages ?
No need for; since it's copy-on-write, not copy-on-read :) we can just
check for pages that are zero and not rewrite them with zeros. That's
what Peter's patches do, I'll review them right away.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-12 20:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-30 7:44 [Qemu-devel] broken incoming migration Alexey Kardashevskiy
2013-05-30 7:49 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2013-05-30 7:49 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-30 8:18 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2013-05-30 9:08 ` Peter Lieven
2013-05-30 9:31 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2013-05-30 13:00 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-30 13:38 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2013-05-30 14:08 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-30 14:38 ` Peter Lieven
2013-05-30 14:41 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-04 13:52 ` Peter Lieven
2013-06-04 14:14 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-04 14:38 ` Peter Lieven
2013-06-04 14:40 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-04 14:48 ` Peter Lieven
2013-06-04 15:17 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-04 19:15 ` Peter Lieven
2013-06-05 3:37 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2013-06-05 6:09 ` Peter Lieven
2013-06-09 4:12 ` liu ping fan
2013-06-09 7:22 ` Peter Lieven
2013-06-04 15:10 ` Peter Lieven
2013-06-08 8:27 ` Wenchao Xia
2013-06-08 8:30 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2013-06-09 2:16 ` Wenchao Xia
2013-06-09 2:34 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2013-06-09 2:52 ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] " Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-06-09 3:01 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2013-06-09 3:01 ` [Qemu-devel] " Wenchao Xia
2013-06-09 3:09 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2013-06-09 3:31 ` Wenchao Xia
2013-06-09 7:27 ` Peter Lieven
2013-06-10 6:39 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2013-06-10 6:50 ` Peter Lieven
2013-06-10 6:55 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2013-06-10 8:44 ` Peter Lieven
2013-06-10 9:10 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2013-06-10 9:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] " Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-06-10 9:42 ` Peter Lieven
2013-06-09 2:53 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-06-12 14:00 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-12 14:11 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-06-12 20:10 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2013-06-13 2:41 ` Wenchao Xia
2013-06-03 10:04 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alexey Kardashevskiy
2013-06-04 10:56 ` Peter Lieven
2013-06-08 8:24 ` Wenchao Xia
2013-05-30 10:18 ` Peter Maydell
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