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* [PATCH 0 of 3] Update paging/sharing/access interfaces v2
@ 2012-02-09  6:08 Andres Lagar-Cavilla
  2012-02-09  6:08 ` [PATCH 1 of 3] Use memops for mem paging, sharing, and access, instead of domctls Andres Lagar-Cavilla
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From: Andres Lagar-Cavilla @ 2012-02-09  6:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: xen-devel; +Cc: andres, tim, adin

i(Was switch from domctl to memops)
Changes from v1 posted Feb 2nd 2012

- Patches 1 & 2 Acked-by Tim Deegan on the hypervisor side
- Added patch 3 to clean up the enable domctl interface, based on
  discussion with Ian Campbell

Description from original post follows:

Per page operations in the paging, sharing, and access tracking subsystems are
all implemented with domctls (e.g. a domctl to evict one page, or to share one
page).

Under heavy load, the domctl path reveals a lack of scalability. The domctl
lock serializes dom0's vcpus in the hypervisor. When performing thousands of
per-page operations on dozens of domains, these vcpus will spin in the
hypervisor. Beyond the aggressive locking, an added inefficiency of blocking
vcpus in the domctl lock is that dom0 is prevented from re-scheduling any of
its other work-starved processes.

We retain the domctl interface for setting up and tearing down
paging/sharing/mem access for a domain. But we migrate all the per page
operations to use the memory_op hypercalls (e.g XENMEM_*).

This is a backwards-incompatible ABI change. It's been floating on the list for
a couple weeks now, with no nacks thus far.

Signed-off-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andres@lagarcavilla>
Signed-off-by: Adin Scannell <adin@scannell.ca>

 tools/libxc/xc_mem_access.c          |   12 +-
 tools/libxc/xc_mem_event.c           |   23 +++-
 tools/libxc/xc_mem_paging.c          |   44 ++++----
 tools/libxc/xc_memshr.c              |  182 ++++++++++++++++------------------
 tools/libxc/xenctrl.h                |    6 +-
 tools/memshr/interface.c             |    4 +-
 tools/tests/mem-sharing/memshrtool.c |    4 +-
 xen/arch/x86/domctl.c                |    1 -
 xen/arch/x86/mm/mem_access.c         |    7 +-
 xen/arch/x86/mm/mem_event.c          |   68 ++++++++++--
 xen/arch/x86/mm/mem_paging.c         |   13 +-
 xen/arch/x86/mm/mem_sharing.c        |   99 +++++++++++-------
 xen/arch/x86/x86_64/compat/mm.c      |   23 ++++
 xen/arch/x86/x86_64/mm.c             |   23 ++++
 xen/include/asm-x86/mem_access.h     |    3 +-
 xen/include/asm-x86/mem_event.h      |    2 +
 xen/include/asm-x86/mem_paging.h     |    3 +-
 xen/include/asm-x86/mem_sharing.h    |    3 +
 xen/include/public/domctl.h          |   90 +++-------------
 xen/include/public/memory.h          |   87 ++++++++++++++++
 tools/libxc/xc_memshr.c              |   11 ++
 tools/libxc/xenctrl.h                |    1 +
 tools/tests/mem-sharing/memshrtool.c |   11 ++
 xen/arch/x86/mm/mem_sharing.c        |   13 +-
 xen/arch/x86/x86_64/compat/mm.c      |    3 +
 xen/arch/x86/x86_64/mm.c             |    2 +
 xen/include/asm-x86/mem_sharing.h    |    3 +-
 xen/include/public/memory.h          |    3 +-
 tools/libxc/xc_mem_access.c          |   10 +-
 tools/libxc/xc_mem_event.c           |   16 ++-
 tools/libxc/xc_mem_paging.c          |   10 +-
 tools/libxc/xenctrl.h                |    7 +-
 tools/tests/xen-access/xen-access.c  |   56 +---------
 tools/xenpaging/xenpaging.c          |   33 +----
 tools/xenpaging/xenpaging.h          |    2 +-
 xen/arch/x86/mm/mem_event.c          |   33 +-----
 xen/include/public/domctl.h          |    4 +-
 xen/include/public/mem_event.h       |    4 -
 xen/include/xen/sched.h              |    2 -
 39 files changed, 514 insertions(+), 407 deletions(-)

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2012-02-09  6:08 [PATCH 0 of 3] Update paging/sharing/access interfaces v2 Andres Lagar-Cavilla
2012-02-09  6:08 ` [PATCH 1 of 3] Use memops for mem paging, sharing, and access, instead of domctls Andres Lagar-Cavilla
2012-02-09 17:21   ` Ian Jackson
2012-02-09 20:33     ` Andres Lagar-Cavilla
2012-02-09  6:08 ` [PATCH 2 of 3] x86/mm: New sharing audit memop Andres Lagar-Cavilla
2012-02-09 17:04   ` Ian Jackson
2012-02-09  6:08 ` [PATCH 3 of 3] Tools: Sanitize mem_event/access/paging interfaces Andres Lagar-Cavilla
2012-02-10 16:13 ` [PATCH 0 of 3] Update paging/sharing/access interfaces v2 Tim Deegan
2012-02-10 18:13   ` Andres Lagar-Cavilla
2012-02-10 19:45     ` Olaf Hering
2012-02-10 20:04       ` Keir Fraser
2012-02-10 20:11         ` Andres Lagar-Cavilla
2012-02-10 20:29           ` Keir Fraser

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