RE: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] memory consumption of Qemu is twice as much as the previous version in KVM

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paolo Bonzini [mailto:paolo.bonzini@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paolo
> Bonzini
> Sent: Monday, May 22, 2017 5:17 PM
> To: Daniel P. Berrange
> Cc: Gonglei (Arei); qemu-devel@xxxxxxxxxx; kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] memory consumption of Qemu is twice as
> much as the previous version in KVM
> 
> On 22/05/2017 10:32, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 10:27:59AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 22/05/2017 09:04, Gonglei (Arei) wrote:
> >>> 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?
> >>
> >> We are registering two memory maps, so yes as long as "-machine
> smm=on"
> >> is set.  We can skip the second address space if SMM is disabled.
> >
> > Am I right in thinking that it is just causing the same memory allocation
> > to be mapped twice at different addresses, not actually allocating double
> > the amount of memory ?
> 
> These are kernel allocations done by KVM when it gets the
> KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION ioctl; of course the two memory maps
> point to
> the same userspace mmap-ed area.
> 
Oh? What's the mmapd-ed area you pointed?
If the KVM allocate memory by vmalloc(), then it will occupy physical
memory (non physically contiguous memory) IMO.

We can get the information from /proc/meminfo:

# cat /proc/meminfo |grep Vmalloc     
VmallocTotal:   34359738367 kB
VmallocUsed:      532796 kB
VmallocChunk:   34292018200 kB

So I think this part of memory is double after that SMM commit. Right?

Thanks,
-Gonglei





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