9ec7a59b5a
Commit 4c41c69e changed the way the coroutine pool is sized because for virtio-blk devices with a large queue size and heavy I/O, it was just too small and caused coroutines to be deleted and reallocated soon afterwards. The change made the size dynamic based on the number of queues and the queue size of virtio-blk devices. There are two important numbers here: Slightly simplified, when a coroutine terminates, it is generally stored in the global release pool up to a certain pool size, and if the pool is full, it is freed. Conversely, when allocating a new coroutine, the coroutines in the release pool are reused if the pool already has reached a certain minimum size (the batch size), otherwise we allocate new coroutines. The problem after commit 4c41c69e is that it not only increases the maximum pool size (which is the intended effect), but also the batch size for reusing coroutines (which is a bug). It means that in cases with many devices and/or a large queue size (which defaults to the number of vcpus for virtio-blk-pci), many thousand coroutines could be sitting in the release pool without being reused. This is not only a waste of memory and allocations, but it actually makes the QEMU process likely to hit the vm.max_map_count limit on Linux because each coroutine requires two mappings (its stack and the guard page for the stack), causing it to abort() in qemu_alloc_stack() because when the limit is hit, mprotect() starts to fail with ENOMEM. In order to fix the problem, change the batch size back to 64 to avoid uselessly accumulating coroutines in the release pool, but keep the dynamic maximum pool size so that coroutines aren't freed too early in heavy I/O scenarios. Note that this fix doesn't strictly make it impossible to hit the limit, but this would only happen if most of the coroutines are actually in use at the same time, not just sitting in a pool. This is the same behaviour as we already had before commit 4c41c69e. Fully preventing this would require allowing qemu_coroutine_create() to return an error, but it doesn't seem to be a scenario that people hit in practice. Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2079938 Fixes: 4c41c69e05fe28c0f95f8abd2ebf407e95a4f04b Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20220510151020.105528-3-kwolf@redhat.com> Tested-by: Hiroki Narukawa <hnarukaw@yahoo-corp.jp> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
=========== QEMU README =========== QEMU is a generic and open source machine & userspace emulator and virtualizer. QEMU is capable of emulating a complete machine in software without any need for hardware virtualization support. By using dynamic translation, it achieves very good performance. QEMU can also integrate with the Xen and KVM hypervisors to provide emulated hardware while allowing the hypervisor to manage the CPU. With hypervisor support, QEMU can achieve near native performance for CPUs. When QEMU emulates CPUs directly it is capable of running operating systems made for one machine (e.g. an ARMv7 board) on a different machine (e.g. an x86_64 PC board). QEMU is also capable of providing userspace API virtualization for Linux and BSD kernel interfaces. This allows binaries compiled against one architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux PPC64 ABI) to be run on a host using a different architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux x86_64 ABI). This does not involve any hardware emulation, simply CPU and syscall emulation. QEMU aims to fit into a variety of use cases. It can be invoked directly by users wishing to have full control over its behaviour and settings. It also aims to facilitate integration into higher level management layers, by providing a stable command line interface and monitor API. It is commonly invoked indirectly via the libvirt library when using open source applications such as oVirt, OpenStack and virt-manager. QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License, version 2. For full licensing details, consult the LICENSE file. Documentation ============= Documentation can be found hosted online at `<https://www.qemu.org/documentation/>`_. The documentation for the current development version that is available at `<https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/>`_ is generated from the ``docs/`` folder in the source tree, and is built by `Sphinx <https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/>_`. Building ======== QEMU is multi-platform software intended to be buildable on all modern Linux platforms, OS-X, Win32 (via the Mingw64 toolchain) and a variety of other UNIX targets. The simple steps to build QEMU are: .. code-block:: shell mkdir build cd build ../configure make Additional information can also be found online via the QEMU website: * `<https://wiki.qemu.org/Hosts/Linux>`_ * `<https://wiki.qemu.org/Hosts/Mac>`_ * `<https://wiki.qemu.org/Hosts/W32>`_ Submitting patches ================== The QEMU source code is maintained under the GIT version control system. .. code-block:: shell git clone https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu.git When submitting patches, one common approach is to use 'git format-patch' and/or 'git send-email' to format & send the mail to the qemu-devel@nongnu.org mailing list. All patches submitted must contain a 'Signed-off-by' line from the author. Patches should follow the guidelines set out in the `style section <https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/devel/style.html>` of the Developers Guide. Additional information on submitting patches can be found online via the QEMU website * `<https://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch>`_ * `<https://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/TrivialPatches>`_ The QEMU website is also maintained under source control. .. code-block:: shell git clone https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu-web.git * `<https://www.qemu.org/2017/02/04/the-new-qemu-website-is-up/>`_ A 'git-publish' utility was created to make above process less cumbersome, and is highly recommended for making regular contributions, or even just for sending consecutive patch series revisions. It also requires a working 'git send-email' setup, and by default doesn't automate everything, so you may want to go through the above steps manually for once. For installation instructions, please go to * `<https://github.com/stefanha/git-publish>`_ The workflow with 'git-publish' is: .. code-block:: shell $ git checkout master -b my-feature $ # work on new commits, add your 'Signed-off-by' lines to each $ git publish Your patch series will be sent and tagged as my-feature-v1 if you need to refer back to it in the future. Sending v2: .. code-block:: shell $ git checkout my-feature # same topic branch $ # making changes to the commits (using 'git rebase', for example) $ git publish Your patch series will be sent with 'v2' tag in the subject and the git tip will be tagged as my-feature-v2. Bug reporting ============= The QEMU project uses GitLab issues to track bugs. Bugs found when running code built from QEMU git or upstream released sources should be reported via: * `<https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues>`_ If using QEMU via an operating system vendor pre-built binary package, it is preferable to report bugs to the vendor's own bug tracker first. If the bug is also known to affect latest upstream code, it can also be reported via GitLab. For additional information on bug reporting consult: * `<https://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/ReportABug>`_ ChangeLog ========= For version history and release notes, please visit `<https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/>`_ or look at the git history for more detailed information. Contact ======= The QEMU community can be contacted in a number of ways, with the two main methods being email and IRC * `<mailto:qemu-devel@nongnu.org>`_ * `<https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel>`_ * #qemu on irc.oftc.net Information on additional methods of contacting the community can be found online via the QEMU website: * `<https://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/StartHere>`_