Re: [PATCH v4 5/5] qemu: Introduce memoryBacking/discard

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On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 11:09:31AM +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1480668

QEMU has this new feature memory-backend-file.discard-data=yes
which is a nifty optimization. Basically, when qemu is quitting
or on memory hotplug it calls munmap() and close() on the file
that is backing the memory. However, this does not mean kernel
won't stop touching that part of memory. It still might. With
this feature enabled we tell kernel: "we don't need this memory
nor data stored in it". This makes kernel drop the memory
immediately without trying to sync memory with the mapped file.

Unfortunately, this cannot be turned on by default because we
can't be sure when users really don't care about what happens to
data after qemu dies. So it has to be opt-in. As usual, there are
three places where one can configure memory attributes. This
patch adds the feature to all of them.


But only tests one of the three ways. It would be nice to split the conf
and qemu changes and provide a XML->XML test.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
docs/formatdomain.html.in                    | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++--
docs/schemas/cputypes.rng                    |  5 ++++
docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng                | 10 +++++++
src/conf/domain_conf.c                       | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
src/conf/domain_conf.h                       |  3 +++
src/conf/numa_conf.c                         | 27 +++++++++++++++++++
src/conf/numa_conf.h                         |  3 +++
src/libvirt_private.syms                     |  1 +
src/qemu/qemu_command.c                      | 27 ++++++++++++++++---
tests/qemuxml2argvdata/hugepages-pages7.args |  3 ++-
tests/qemuxml2argvdata/hugepages-pages7.xml  |  4 +--
tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c                     |  3 ++-
12 files changed, 148 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)


@@ -26658,7 +26690,8 @@ virDomainDefFormatInternal(virDomainDefPtr def,
    }


A perfect candidate to be split out in a separate function...

    if (def->mem.nhugepages || def->mem.nosharepages || def->mem.locked
-        || def->mem.source || def->mem.access || def->mem.allocation)
+        || def->mem.source || def->mem.access || def->mem.allocation
+        || def->mem.discard)

... and converted to use virXMLFormatElement O:-)

    {
        virBufferAddLit(buf, "<memoryBacking>\n");
        virBufferAdjustIndent(buf, 2);
@@ -26677,6 +26710,8 @@ virDomainDefFormatInternal(virDomainDefPtr def,
        if (def->mem.allocation)
            virBufferAsprintf(buf, "<allocation mode='%s'/>\n",
                virDomainMemoryAllocationTypeToString(def->mem.allocation));
+        if (def->mem.discard)
+            virBufferAddLit(buf, "<discard/>\n");

        virBufferAdjustIndent(buf, -2);
        virBufferAddLit(buf, "</memoryBacking>\n");
diff --git a/src/conf/domain_conf.h b/src/conf/domain_conf.h
index 3c7eccb8ca..52d29124f1 100644
--- a/src/conf/domain_conf.h
+++ b/src/conf/domain_conf.h
@@ -2107,6 +2107,7 @@ typedef enum {

struct _virDomainMemoryDef {
    virDomainMemoryAccess access;
+    int discard; /* enum virTristateBool */

You can use virTristateBool discard; directly


    /* source */
    virBitmapPtr sourceNodes;
@@ -2269,6 +2270,8 @@ struct _virDomainMemtune {
    int source; /* enum virDomainMemorySource */
    int access; /* enum virDomainMemoryAccess */
    int allocation; /* enum virDomainMemoryAllocation */
+
+    int discard; /* enum virTristateBool */

Same here.

};

typedef struct _virDomainPowerManagement virDomainPowerManagement;
diff --git a/src/conf/numa_conf.c b/src/conf/numa_conf.c
index 9307dd93d3..a1bbcfa945 100644
--- a/src/conf/numa_conf.c
+++ b/src/conf/numa_conf.c
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ struct _virDomainNuma {
        virBitmapPtr nodeset;   /* host memory nodes where this guest node resides */
        virDomainNumatuneMemMode mode;  /* memory mode selection */
        virDomainMemoryAccess memAccess; /* shared memory access configuration */
+        int discard; /* discard-data for memory-backend-file, virTristateBool */


And here.

        struct _virDomainNumaDistance {
            unsigned int value; /* locality value for node i->j or j->i */

Jano

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