Am 08.04.2013 um 10:33 hat Peter Lieven geschrieben: > > Am 05.04.2013 um 21:23 schrieb Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com>: > > > Am 26.03.2013 um 10:58 hat Peter Lieven geschrieben: > >> virtually all dup pages are zero pages. remove > >> the special is_dup_page() function and use the > >> optimized buffer_find_nonzero_offset() function > >> instead. > >> > >> here buffer_find_nonzero_offset() is used directly > >> to avoid the unnecssary additional checks in > >> buffer_is_zero(). > >> > >> raw performace gain checking 1 GByte zeroed memory > >> over is_dup_page() is approx. 10-12% with SSE2 > >> and 8-10% with unsigned long arithmedtic. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Peter Lieven <p...@kamp.de> > >> Reviewed-by: Orit Wasserman <owass...@redhat.com> > >> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> > > > > Okay, so I bisected again and this is the second patch that is involved > > in the slowness of qemu-iotests case 007. > > > > Can you try if the following solves your issue: > > diff --git a/exec.c b/exec.c > index 786987a..54baa4a 100644 > --- a/exec.c > +++ b/exec.c > @@ -1071,6 +1071,7 @@ ram_addr_t qemu_ram_alloc_from_ptr(ram_addr_t size, > void *host, > memory_try_enable_merging(new_block->host, size); > } > } > + qemu_madvise(new_block->host, size, QEMU_MADV_DONTNEED); > new_block->length = size; > > /* Keep the list sorted from biggest to smallest block. */
It does. But perhaps Paolo's suggestion of using mmap() to allocate the memory would be better. I'm not sure how MADV_DONTNEED behaves on non-Linux. Kevin
