From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
To: Dongli Zhang <dongli.zhang@oracle.com>
Cc: sstabellini@kernel.org, wei.liu2@citrix.com,
George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com, jinsong.liu@alibaba-inc.com,
dario.faggioli@citrix.com, tim@xen.org, xen-devel@lists.xen.org,
jbeulich@suse.com, andrew.cooper3@citrix.com,
ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 2/2] xen: move TLB-flush filtering out into populate_physmap during vm creation
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 12:23:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160921112356.GF30319@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <70c53411-bf97-4f4e-a0e2-9becfb1b2269@default>
On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 06:39:32PM -0700, Dongli Zhang wrote:
> > > This patch implemented parts of TODO left in commit id
> > > a902c12ee45fc9389eb8fe54eeddaf267a555c58 (More efficient TLB-flush
> > > filtering in alloc_heap_pages()). It moved TLB-flush filtering out into
> > > populate_physmap. Because of TLB-flush in alloc_heap_pages, it's very slow
> > > to create a guest with memory size of more than 100GB on host with 100+
> > > cpus.
> > >
> > >
> > Do you have some actual numbers on how much faster after applying this
> > patch?
> >
> > This is mostly for writing release note etc, so it is fine if you don't
> > have numbers at hand.
>
> I do not have data of upstream version at hand now. I always tested the
> performance of this patchset by backporting it to an Oracle VM based on a
> very old Xen version, before I sent out the patchset for review. The
> backport just involves: (1) copy & paste code, (2) change bool to bool_t
> and (3) change true/false to 1/0.
>
> The test machine has 8 nodes of 2048GB memory and 128 cpu. With this
> patchset applied, the time to re-create a VM (with 135GB memory and 12
> vcpu) is reduced from 5min to 20s.
Thanks, this is useful information.
Wei.
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-21 1:39 [PATCH v6 2/2] xen: move TLB-flush filtering out into populate_physmap during vm creation Dongli Zhang
2016-09-21 11:23 ` Wei Liu [this message]
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2016-09-20 2:31 [PATCH v6 1/2] xen: replace tlbflush check and operation with inline functions Dongli Zhang
2016-09-20 2:31 ` [PATCH v6 2/2] xen: move TLB-flush filtering out into populate_physmap during vm creation Dongli Zhang
2016-09-20 9:01 ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-20 11:20 ` George Dunlap
2016-09-20 12:14 ` Dario Faggioli
2016-09-20 14:54 ` Wei Liu
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