Having large virtio-mem devices that only expose little memory to a VM
is currently a problem: we map the whole sparse memory region into the
guest using a single memslot, resulting in one gigantic memslot in KVM.
KVM allocates metadata for the whole memslot, which can result in quite
some memory waste.
Assuming we have a 1 TiB virtio-mem device and only expose little (e.g.,
1 GiB) memory, we would create a single 1 TiB memslot and KVM has to
allocate metadata for that 1 TiB memslot: on x86, this implies allocating
a significant amount of memory for metadata:
(1) RMAP: 8 bytes per 4 KiB, 8 bytes per 2 MiB, 8 bytes per 1 GiB
-> For 1 TiB: 2147483648 + 4194304 + 8192 = ~ 2 GiB (0.2 %)
With the TDP MMU (cat /sys/module/kvm/parameters/tdp_mmu) this gets
allocated lazily when required for nested VMs
(2) gfn_track: 2 bytes per 4 KiB
-> For 1 TiB: 536870912 = ~512 MiB (0.05 %)
(3) lpage_info: 4 bytes per 2 MiB, 4 bytes per 1 GiB
-> For 1 TiB: 2097152 + 4096 = ~2 MiB (0.0002 %)
(4) 2x dirty bitmaps for tracking: 2x 1 bit per 4 KiB page
-> For 1 TiB: 536870912 = 64 MiB (0.006 %)
So we primarily care about (1) and (2). The bad thing is, that the
memory consumption *doubles* once SMM is enabled, because we create the
memslot once for !SMM and once for SMM.
Having a 1 TiB memslot without the TDP MMU consumes around:
* With SMM: 5 GiB
* Without SMM: 2.5 GiB
Having a 1 TiB memslot with the TDP MMU consumes around:
* With SMM: 1 GiB
* Without SMM: 512 MiB
... and that's really something we want to optimize, to be able to just
start a VM with small boot memory (e.g., 4 GiB) and a virtio-mem device
that can grow very large (e.g., 1 TiB).
Consequently, using multiple memslots and only mapping the memslots we
really need can significantly reduce memory waste and speed up
memslot-related operations. Let's expose the sparse RAM memory region using
multiple memslots, mapping only the memslots we currently need into our
device memory region container.
The feature can be enabled using "dynamic-memslots=on" and requires
"unplugged-inaccessible=on", which is nowadays the default.
Once enabled, we'll auto-detect the number of memslots to use based on the
memslot limit provided by the core. We'll use at most 1 memslot per
gigabyte. Note that our global limit of memslots accross all memory devices
is currently set to 256: even with multiple large virtio-mem devices,
we'd still have a sane limit on the number of memslots used.
The default is to not dynamically map memslot for now
("dynamic-memslots=off"). The optimization must be enabled manually,
because some vhost setups (e.g., hotplug of vhost-user devices) might be
problematic until we support more memslots especially in vhost-user backends.
Note that "dynamic-memslots=on" is just a hint that multiple memslots
*may* be used for internal optimizations, not that multiple memslots
*must* be used. The actual number of memslots that are used is an
internal detail: for example, once memslot metadata is no longer an
issue, we could simply stop optimizing for that. Migration source and
destination can differ on the setting of "dynamic-memslots".
Message-ID: <20230926185738.277351-17-david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Maciej S. Szmigiero <maciej.szmigiero@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Let's support device unplug by forwarding the unplug_request_check()
callback to the virtio-mem device.
Further, disallow changing the requested-size once an unplug request is
pending.
Disallowing requested-size changes handles corner cases such as
(1) pausing the VM (2) requesting device unplug and (3) adjusting the
requested size. If the VM would plug memory (due to the requested size
change) before processing the unplug request, we would be in trouble.
Message-ID: <20230711153445.514112-8-david@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Mario Casquero <mcasquer@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Let's add a new abstract "virtio memory device" type, and use it as
parent class of virtio-mem-pci and virtio-pmem-pci.
Message-ID: <20230711153445.514112-2-david@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Mario Casquero <mcasquer@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Mechanical change running Coccinelle spatch with content
generated from the qom-cast-macro-clean-cocci-gen.py added
in the previous commit.
Suggested-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20230601093452.38972-3-philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
The has_FOO for pointer-valued FOO are redundant, except for arrays.
They are also a nuisance to work with. Recent commit "qapi: Start to
elide redundant has_FOO in generated C" provided the means to elide
them step by step. This is the step for qapi/machine*.json.
Said commit explains the transformation in more detail. The invariant
violations mentioned there do not occur here.
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <eduardo@habkost.net>
Cc: Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel.apfelbaum@gmail.com>
Cc: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Cc: Yanan Wang <wangyanan55@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20221104160712.3005652-16-armbru@redhat.com>
Not needed for a virtio 1.0 device. virtio_pci_device_plugged()
overrides them anyway (so no functional change).
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20221004112100.301935-3-kraxel@redhat.com>
As we might not always have a device id, it is impossible to always
match MEMORY_DEVICE_SIZE_CHANGE events to an actual device. Let's
include the qom-path in the event, which allows for reliable mapping of
events to devices.
Fixes: 722a3c783e ("virtio-pci: Send qapi events when the virtio-mem size changes")
Suggested-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210929162445.64060-3-david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Apparently, we don't have to duplicate the string.
Fixes: 722a3c783e ("virtio-pci: Send qapi events when the virtio-mem size changes")
Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210929162445.64060-2-david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The block size determines the alignment requirements. Implement
get_min_alignment() of the TYPE_MEMORY_DEVICE interface.
This allows auto-assignment of a properly aligned address in guest
physical address space. For example, when specifying a 2GB block size
for a virtio-mem device with 10GB with a memory setup "-m 4G, 20G",
we'll no longer fail when realizing.
Reviewed-by: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Wei Yang <richardw.yang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Cc: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Cc: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20201008083029.9504-7-david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Only qemu-system-FOO and qemu-storage-daemon provide QMP
monitors, therefore such declarations and definitions are
irrelevant for user-mode emulation.
Restricting the memory commands to machine.json pulls less
QAPI-generated code into user-mode.
Acked-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200913195348.1064154-7-philmd@redhat.com>
[Commit message tweaked]
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Trying to run simple virtio-mem-pci examples currently fails with
qemu-system-x86_64: -device virtio-mem-pci,id=vm0,memdev=mem0,node=0,
requested-size=300M: device is modern-only, use disable-legacy=on
due to the added safety checks in 9b3a35ec82 ("virtio: verify that legacy
support is not accidentally on").
As noted by Conny, we have to force virtio version 1. While at it, use
qdev_realize() to set the parent bus and realize - like most other
virtio-*-pci implementations.
Fixes: 0b9a2443a4 ("virtio-pci: Proxy for virtio-mem")
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200727115905.129397-1-david@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
The object_property_set_FOO() setters take property name and value in
an unusual order:
void object_property_set_FOO(Object *obj, FOO_TYPE value,
const char *name, Error **errp)
Having to pass value before name feels grating. Swap them.
Same for object_property_set(), object_property_get(), and
object_property_parse().
Convert callers with this Coccinelle script:
@@
identifier fun = {
object_property_get, object_property_parse, object_property_set_str,
object_property_set_link, object_property_set_bool,
object_property_set_int, object_property_set_uint, object_property_set,
object_property_set_qobject
};
expression obj, v, name, errp;
@@
- fun(obj, v, name, errp)
+ fun(obj, name, v, errp)
Chokes on hw/arm/musicpal.c's lcd_refresh() with the unhelpful error
message "no position information". Convert that one manually.
Fails to convert hw/arm/armsse.c, because Coccinelle gets confused by
ARMSSE being used both as typedef and function-like macro there.
Convert manually.
Fails to convert hw/rx/rx-gdbsim.c, because Coccinelle gets confused
by RXCPU being used both as typedef and function-like macro there.
Convert manually. The other files using RXCPU that way don't need
conversion.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Message-Id: <20200707160613.848843-27-armbru@redhat.com>
[Straightforwad conflict with commit 2336172d9b "audio: set default
value for pcspk.iobase property" resolved]
Let's register the notifier and trigger the qapi event with the right
device id.
MEMORY_DEVICE_SIZE_CHANGE is similar to BALLOON_CHANGE, however on a
memory device level.
Don't unregister the notifier (we neither have finalize() nor unrealize()
for VirtIOPCIProxy, so it's not that simple to do it) - both devices are
expected to vanish at the same time.
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Cc: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200626072248.78761-18-david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Let's add a proxy for virtio-mem, make it a memory device, and
pass-through the properties.
Reviewed-by: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel.apfelbaum@gmail.com>
Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Cc: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200626072248.78761-12-david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
