Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4] Add option to mlock qemu and guest memory

2013-04-22 Thread Satoru Moriya
Hi Vinod, Thank you for your report. (2013/04/22 14:16), Chegu Vinod wrote: > FYI... I had tried to use this change earlier and it did show some > improvements in perf. (due to reduced exits). > > But as expected mlockall () on large sized guests adds a considerable > delay in boot time. Yes, i

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4] Add option to mlock qemu and guest memory

2013-04-22 Thread Anthony Liguori
Applied. Thanks. Regards, Anthony Liguori

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4] Add option to mlock qemu and guest memory

2013-04-21 Thread Chegu Vinod
Hi Satoru, FYI... I had tried to use this change earlier and it did show some improvements in perf. (due to reduced exits). But as expected mlockall () on large sized guests adds a considerable delay in boot time. For e.g. on an 8 socket Westmere box => a 256G guest : took an additional ~2+

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4] Add option to mlock qemu and guest memory

2013-04-03 Thread Markus Armbruster
Seiji Aguchi writes: > Anthony, > >> Currently my company doesn't allow me to use git-send-email to send a email. >> So now I'm trying to find work around with IT. > > Satoru and I still talk if we can use git-send-email with my company IT. > But, it seems to take a long time... > > So, I attach

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4] Add option to mlock qemu and guest memory

2013-04-02 Thread Anthony Liguori
t; Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 11:18 AM >> > To: Satoru Moriya; qemu-devel@nongnu.org >> > Cc: Jan Kiszka; mtosa...@redhat.com; Paolo Bonzini; Seiji Aguchi; >> > Tomoki Sekiyama; dle- deve...@lists.sourceforge.net; >> > satoru.moriya...@hitachi.com >> &g

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4] Add option to mlock qemu and guest memory

2013-04-02 Thread Seiji Aguchi
yama; dle-deve...@lists.sourceforge.net; > satoru.moriya...@hitachi.com > Subject: RE: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4] Add option to mlock qemu and guest memory > > > -Original Message- > > From: Anthony Liguori [mailto:aligu...@us.ibm.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4] Add option to mlock qemu and guest memory

2013-03-27 Thread Satoru Moriya
lists.sourceforge.net; satoru.moriya...@hitachi.com > Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4] Add option to mlock qemu and guest memory > > Satoru Moriya writes: > > > In certain scenario, latency induced by paging is significant and > > memory locking is needed. Also, in th

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4] Add option to mlock qemu and guest memory

2013-03-27 Thread Anthony Liguori
Satoru Moriya writes: > In certain scenario, latency induced by paging is significant and > memory locking is needed. Also, in the scenario with untrusted > guests, latency improvement due to mlock is desired. > > This patch introduces a following new option to mlock guest and > qemu memory: > >