On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 04:07:29PM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote: > The end goal of this series is to dynamically size the memslot array so > that KVM allocates memory based on the number of memslots in use, as > opposed to unconditionally allocating memory for the maximum number of > memslots. On x86, each memslot consumes 88 bytes, and so with 2 address > spaces of 512 memslots, each VM consumes ~90k bytes for the memslots. > E.g. given a VM that uses a total of 30 memslots, dynamic sizing reduces > the memory footprint from 90k to ~2.6k bytes. > > The changes required to support dynamic sizing are relatively small, > e.g. are essentially contained in patches 14/15 and 15/15. Patches 1-13 > clean up the memslot code, which has gotten quite crusty, especially > __kvm_set_memory_region(). The clean up is likely not strictly necessary > to switch to dynamic sizing, but I didn't have a remotely reasonable > level of confidence in the correctness of the dynamic sizing without first > doing the clean up. > > Christoffer, I added your Tested-by to the patches that I was confident > would be fully tested based on the desription of what you tested. Let me > know if you disagree with any of 'em. > > v3: > - Fix build errors on PPC and MIPS due to missed params during > refactoring [kbuild test robot]. > - Rename the helpers for update_memslots() and add comments describing > the new algorithm and how it interacts with searching [Paolo]. > - Remove the unnecessary and obnoxious warning regarding memslots being > a flexible array [Paolo]. > - Fix typos in the changelog of patch 09/15 [Christoffer]. > - Collect tags [Christoffer]. > > v2: > - Split "Drop kvm_arch_create_memslot()" into three patches to move > minor functional changes to standalone patches [Janosch]. > - Rebase to latest kvm/queue (f0574a1cea5b, "KVM: x86: fix ...") > - Collect an Acked-by and a Reviewed-by Paolo, do you want me to rebase this to the latest kvm/queue? _______________________________________________ kvmarm mailing list kvmarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/kvmarm
