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Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] broken incoming migration
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] broken incoming migration |
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Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:10:38 -0400 |
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Il 12/06/2013 10:11, Benjamin Herrenschmidt ha scritto:
> On Wed, 2013-06-12 at 10:00 -0400, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> The only bug we have is not a performance bug related to compression;
>> it's that writing zero pages breaks overcommit. Let's fix that, and
>> only that.
>
> Right, do we have a way to madvise "throw away" these instead ?
We already do that, but apparently that madvise is asynchronous.
> Or do we
> have a way to track that the platform init code did write something
> there and only clear *those* pages ?
No need for; since it's copy-on-write, not copy-on-read :) we can just
check for pages that are zero and not rewrite them with zeros. That's
what Peter's patches do, I'll review them right away.
Paolo
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] broken incoming migration, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] broken incoming migration, Alexey Kardashevskiy, 2013/06/10
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] broken incoming migration, Peter Lieven, 2013/06/10
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] broken incoming migration, Alexey Kardashevskiy, 2013/06/10
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] broken incoming migration, Peter Lieven, 2013/06/10
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] broken incoming migration, Alexey Kardashevskiy, 2013/06/10
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] broken incoming migration, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, 2013/06/10
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] broken incoming migration, Peter Lieven, 2013/06/10
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] broken incoming migration, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, 2013/06/08
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] broken incoming migration, Paolo Bonzini, 2013/06/12
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] broken incoming migration, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, 2013/06/12
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] broken incoming migration,
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- Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] broken incoming migration, Wenchao Xia, 2013/06/12