Currently mem-sharing can be performed on a page-by-page basis from the control
domain. However, this process is quite wasteful when a range of pages have to
be deduplicated.
This patch introduces a new mem_sharing memop for range sharing where
the user doesn't have to separately nominate each page in both the source and
destination domain, and the looping over all pages happen in the hypervisor.
This significantly reduces the overhead of sharing a range of memory.
Signed-off-by: Tamas K Lengyel <tamas.lengyel@zentific.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
libxenforeignmemory will provide a stable API and ABI for mapping
foreign domain memory (subject to appropriate privileges).
The new library exposes an interface equivalent to
xc_map_foreign_memory_bulk, which all the other
xc_map_foreign_memory_* functions (which remain in libxc) are
implemented in terms of.
Upon request (via #define XC_WANT_COMPAT_MAP_FOREIGN_API) libxenctrl
will provide a compat API for the old names. This is used by qemu-xen
and qemu-trad as well as various in tree things (which required
de-dupping various #includes in some too to get the #define before the
first).
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
[ ijc -- updated MINIOS_UPSTREAM_REVISION and QEMU_TRADITIONAL_REVISION ]
If there is a negative return value - check for that and
also use errno for the proper error value.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Remove costly mem_sharing audits from the inline path, and instead make them
callable as a memop.
Have the audit function return the number of errors detected.
Update memshrtool to be able to trigger audits.
Set sharing audits as enabled by default.
Signed-off-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andres@lagarcavilla.org>
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>
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>
This is demo code meant to showcase how to perform sharing
operations. It is useful for testing.
[ Added appropriate lines to .hgignore and .gitignore -iwj ]
Signed-off-by: Adin Scannell <adin@scannell.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andres@lagarcavilla.org>
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Tamas K Lengyel
Ian Campbell
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Andres Lagar-Cavilla