Hi Paolo,
I found that the latest Qemu eat 2 time memory in KVM since Qemu-2.3.0.
Replication Steps:
1. I created a CentOS 7 with 4U8G using Qemu-2.3.0,
# grep kvm_kvzalloc /proc/vmallocinfo | awk '{total+=$2}; END {print total}'
16932864
# grep kvm_kvzalloc /proc/vmallocinfo
0xffffc900205c7000-0xffffc90020fc8000 10489856 kvm_kvzalloc+0x3c/0x40 [kvm] pages=2560 vmalloc vpages N1=2560
0xffffc90020fc8000-0xffffc90020fce000 24576 kvm_kvzalloc+0x3c/0x40 [kvm] pages=5 vmalloc N1=5
0xffffc90020fce000-0xffffc90020fd4000 24576 kvm_kvzalloc+0x3c/0x40 [kvm] pages=5 vmalloc N1=5
0xffffc90020fd4000-0xffffc90020fd8000 16384 kvm_kvzalloc+0x3c/0x40 [kvm] pages=3 vmalloc N1=3
0xffffc9002438b000-0xffffc9002498c000 6295552 kvm_kvzalloc+0x3c/0x40 [kvm] pages=1536 vmalloc vpages N1=1536
0xffffc9002498c000-0xffffc90024990000 16384 kvm_kvzalloc+0x3c/0x40 [kvm] pages=3 vmalloc N1=3
0xffffc90024990000-0xffffc90024994000 16384 kvm_kvzalloc+0x3c/0x40 [kvm] pages=3 vmalloc N1=3
0xffffc90024994000-0xffffc90024997000 12288 kvm_kvzalloc+0x3c/0x40 [kvm] pages=2 vmalloc N1=2
0xffffc90024a75000-0xffffc90024a7e000 36864 kvm_kvzalloc+0x3c/0x40 [kvm] pages=8 vmalloc N1=8
PS: There is only this VM in my host.
2. Do the same test using the latest Qemu:
# grep kvm_kvzalloc /proc/vmallocinfo | awk '{total+=$2}; END {print total}'
33865728
linux-PsHdkO:~ # grep kvm_kvzalloc /proc/vmallocinfo
0xffffc9001f181000-0xffffc9001fb82000 10489856 kvm_kvzalloc+0x25/0x30 [kvm] pages=2560 vmalloc vpages N1=2560
0xffffc9001fb82000-0xffffc9001fb88000 24576 kvm_kvzalloc+0x25/0x30 [kvm] pages=5 vmalloc N1=5
0xffffc9001fb88000-0xffffc9001fb8e000 24576 kvm_kvzalloc+0x25/0x30 [kvm] pages=5 vmalloc N1=5
0xffffc9001fb8e000-0xffffc9001fb92000 16384 kvm_kvzalloc+0x25/0x30 [kvm] pages=3 vmalloc N1=3
0xffffc90020854000-0xffffc90021255000 10489856 kvm_kvzalloc+0x25/0x30 [kvm] pages=2560 vmalloc vpages N1=2560
0xffffc90021255000-0xffffc9002125b000 24576 kvm_kvzalloc+0x25/0x30 [kvm] pages=5 vmalloc N1=5
0xffffc9002125b000-0xffffc90021261000 24576 kvm_kvzalloc+0x25/0x30 [kvm] pages=5 vmalloc N1=5
0xffffc90021261000-0xffffc90021265000 16384 kvm_kvzalloc+0x25/0x30 [kvm] pages=3 vmalloc N1=3
0xffffc9002616e000-0xffffc90026172000 16384 kvm_kvzalloc+0x25/0x30 [kvm] pages=3 vmalloc N1=3
0xffffc90026172000-0xffffc90026176000 16384 kvm_kvzalloc+0x25/0x30 [kvm] pages=3 vmalloc N1=3
0xffffc90026176000-0xffffc90026179000 12288 kvm_kvzalloc+0x25/0x30 [kvm] pages=2 vmalloc N1=2
0xffffc900261a9000-0xffffc900261ad000 16384 kvm_kvzalloc+0x25/0x30 [kvm] pages=3 vmalloc N1=3
0xffffc900261ad000-0xffffc900261b1000 16384 kvm_kvzalloc+0x25/0x30 [kvm] pages=3 vmalloc N1=3
0xffffc900261b1000-0xffffc900261b4000 12288 kvm_kvzalloc+0x25/0x30 [kvm] pages=2 vmalloc N1=2
0xffffc900280fe000-0xffffc900286ff000 6295552 kvm_kvzalloc+0x25/0x30 [kvm] pages=1536 vmalloc vpages N1=1536
0xffffc900286ff000-0xffffc90028d00000 6295552 kvm_kvzalloc+0x25/0x30 [kvm] pages=1536 vmalloc vpages N1=1536
0xffffc90028d87000-0xffffc90028d90000 36864 kvm_kvzalloc+0x25/0x30 [kvm] pages=8 vmalloc N1=8
0xffffc90028d9c000-0xffffc90028da5000 36864 kvm_kvzalloc+0x25/0x30 [kvm] pages=8 vmalloc N1=8
3. I found the first bad commit by 'git biscet'
linux-arei:/mnt/sdb/gonglei/opensource/qemu # git bisect bad
6410848bec38089424d54a6a8f10d4cf77182b5d is the first bad commit
commit 6410848bec38089424d54a6a8f10d4cf77182b5d
Author: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Jun 18 18:30:16 2015 +0200
target-i386: register a separate KVM address space including SMRAM regions
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
:040000 040000 b2435d7cd0829e6416b316f1ae2856e6f7b0023d 1acb81aecaf50f2d313b33f2b61a24f7f0bd6f07 M target-i386
linux-PsHdkO:/mnt/sdb/gonglei/opensource/qemu #
Any ideas about this change? Do we really need to trigger two times memory region allocation?
Thanks,
-Gonglei
