Per page operations in the paging, sharing, and access tracking subsystems are
all implemented with domctls (e.g. a domctl to evict one page, or to share one
page).
Under heavy load, the domctl path reveals a lack of scalability. The domctl
lock serializes dom0's vcpus in the hypervisor. When performing thousands of
per-page operations on dozens of domains, these vcpus will spin in the
hypervisor. Beyond the aggressive locking, an added inefficiency of blocking
vcpus in the domctl lock is that dom0 is prevented from re-scheduling any of
its other work-starved processes.
We retain the domctl interface for setting up and tearing down
paging/sharing/mem access for a domain. But we migrate all the per page
operations to use the memory_op hypercalls (e.g XENMEM_*).
Signed-off-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andres@lagarcavilla>
Signed-off-by: Adin Scannell <adin@scannell.ca>
Acked-by: Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>
mlock and munlock are implemented as macros in mini-os. Their usage
requires casting in common code. Convert them to C syntax and provide
an empty dummy function. Remove the now unneeded (void) cast from two
munlock calls.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Bring xc_mem_paging.c in line with other users of munlock in libxc.
Otherwise it trips over -Werror=unused-value
Signed-off-by: Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>
xc_mem_paging_load() does not pass errors in errno and the actual
errno from xc_mem_event_control() is overwritten by munlock().
xenpaging_populate_page() needs to check errno, but with the switch to
xc_mem_paging_load() it could not receive ENOMEM anymore.
Update xc_mem_paging_load() to return -1 and preserve errno during
munlock().
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Acked-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andres@lagarcavilla.org>
Committed-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
Up to now a single ring buffer was used for mem_share, xenpaging and
xen-access. Each helper would have to cooperate and pull only its own
requests from the ring. Unfortunately this was not implemented. And
even if it was, it would make the whole concept fragile because a crash
or early exit of one helper would stall the others.
What happend up to now is that active xenpaging + memory_sharing would
push memsharing requests in the buffer. xenpaging is not prepared for
such requests.
This patch creates an independet ring buffer for mem_share, xenpaging
and xen-access and adds also new functions to enable xenpaging and
xen-access. The xc_mem_event_enable/xc_mem_event_disable functions will
be removed. The various XEN_DOMCTL_MEM_EVENT_* macros were cleaned up.
Due to the removal the API changed, so the SONAME will be changed too.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Acked-by: Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>
# User Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
# Date 1282671421 -3600
# Node ID d1dd29a470ef1b9d2c77478a123326036dfe90bb
# Parent d7a4adad9c328decbd384d87b23001aea8951b86
tools/libxc, tools/libelf: Relicense under LGPL v2.1
Relicense these two libraries under LGPL v2.1 only except where
individual files already included the "or later" provision.
Copyright holders have been contacted by Stephen Spector and have all
agreed this change.
Removed tools/libxc/ia64/aclinux.h since it appeared to be
unused. There is a separate, more up to date, copy in
xen/include/acpi/platform/aclinux.h which does appear to be used.
Clarify the license of MiniOS privcmd.h under the same terms as other
tools/include/xen-sys headers.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Spector <stephen.spector@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
This patch eliminate the global variables in libxenctrl (used for
logging and error reporting).
Instead the information which was in the global variables is now in a
new xc_interface* opaque structure, which xc_interface open returns
instead of the raw file descriptor; furthermore, logging is done via
xentoollog.
There are three new parameters to xc_interface_open to control the
logging, but existing callers can just pass "0" for all three to get
the old behaviour.
All libxc callers have been adjusted accordingly.
Also update QEMU_TAG for corresponding qemu change.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Andres Lagar-Cavilla
Olaf Hering
Tim Deegan
Ian Campbell
Keir Fraser