[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxc: try to find last used pfn when migrating
On 27/11/15 16:33, Wei Liu wrote: > On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 03:50:53PM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote: >> For migration the last used pfn of a guest is needed to size the >> logdirty bitmap and as an upper bound of the page loop. Unfortunately >> there are pv-kernels advertising a much higher maximum pfn as they >> are really using in order to support memory hotplug. This will lead >> to allocation of much more memory in Xen tools during migration as >> really needed. >> >> Try to find the last used guest pfn of a pv-domu by scanning the p2m >> tree from the last entry towards it's start and search for an entry >> not being invalid. >> >> Normally the mid pages of the p2m tree containing all invalid entries >> are being reused, so we can just scan the top page for identical >> entries and skip them but the first one. >> >> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx> >> --- >> tools/libxc/xc_sr_save.c | 8 ++++---- >> tools/libxc/xc_sr_save_x86_pv.c | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- >> 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/tools/libxc/xc_sr_save.c b/tools/libxc/xc_sr_save.c >> index 0c12e56..22b3f18 100644 >> --- a/tools/libxc/xc_sr_save.c >> +++ b/tools/libxc/xc_sr_save.c >> @@ -677,6 +677,10 @@ static int setup(struct xc_sr_context *ctx) >> DECLARE_HYPERCALL_BUFFER_SHADOW(unsigned long, dirty_bitmap, >> &ctx->save.dirty_bitmap_hbuf); >> >> + rc = ctx->save.ops.setup(ctx); >> + if ( rc ) >> + goto err; >> + >> dirty_bitmap = xc_hypercall_buffer_alloc_pages( >> xch, dirty_bitmap, >> NRPAGES(bitmap_size(ctx->save.p2m_size))); >> ctx->save.batch_pfns = malloc(MAX_BATCH_SIZE * >> @@ -692,10 +696,6 @@ static int setup(struct xc_sr_context *ctx) >> goto err; >> } >> > > p2m_size is set in two places for PV guest. Since we are now relying on > ops.setup to set p2m_size, the invocation to xc_domain_nr_gpfns in > xc_domain_save should be removed, so that we only have one place to set > p2m_size. I wasn't sure this is needed in save case only. If it is I can make the change, of course. Andrew? > You then also need to call xc_domain_nr_gpfns in HVM's ops.setup > (x86_hvm_setup). Sure. Juergen _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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