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authorDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>2022-10-14 15:47:19 +0200
committerDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>2022-10-27 11:01:03 +0200
commite6816458624813de4a31f89096a620b410e1c2b8 (patch)
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parente04a34e55cf1911099e2d8a680f9bee4f6d90e4a (diff)
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hostmem: Allow for specifying a ThreadContext for preallocation
Let's allow for specifying a thread context via the "prealloc-context"
property. When set, preallcoation threads will be crated via the
thread context -- inheriting the same CPU affinity as the thread
context.

Pinning preallcoation threads to CPUs can heavily increase performance
in NUMA setups, because, preallocation from a CPU close to the target
NUMA node(s) is faster then preallocation from a CPU further remote,
simply because of memory bandwidth for initializing memory with zeroes.
This is especially relevant for very large VMs backed by huge/gigantic
pages, whereby preallocation is mandatory.

Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20221014134720.168738-7-david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'backends')
-rw-r--r--backends/hostmem.c12
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/backends/hostmem.c b/backends/hostmem.c
index 76f0394490..8640294c10 100644
--- a/backends/hostmem.c
+++ b/backends/hostmem.c
@@ -232,8 +232,8 @@ static void host_memory_backend_set_prealloc(Object *obj, bool value,
         void *ptr = memory_region_get_ram_ptr(&backend->mr);
         uint64_t sz = memory_region_size(&backend->mr);
 
-        qemu_prealloc_mem(fd, ptr, sz, backend->prealloc_threads, NULL,
-                          &local_err);
+        qemu_prealloc_mem(fd, ptr, sz, backend->prealloc_threads,
+                          backend->prealloc_context, &local_err);
         if (local_err) {
             error_propagate(errp, local_err);
             return;
@@ -385,7 +385,8 @@ host_memory_backend_memory_complete(UserCreatable *uc, Error **errp)
          */
         if (backend->prealloc) {
             qemu_prealloc_mem(memory_region_get_fd(&backend->mr), ptr, sz,
-                              backend->prealloc_threads, NULL, &local_err);
+                              backend->prealloc_threads,
+                              backend->prealloc_context, &local_err);
             if (local_err) {
                 goto out;
             }
@@ -493,6 +494,11 @@ host_memory_backend_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
         NULL, NULL);
     object_class_property_set_description(oc, "prealloc-threads",
         "Number of CPU threads to use for prealloc");
+    object_class_property_add_link(oc, "prealloc-context",
+        TYPE_THREAD_CONTEXT, offsetof(HostMemoryBackend, prealloc_context),
+        object_property_allow_set_link, OBJ_PROP_LINK_STRONG);
+    object_class_property_set_description(oc, "prealloc-context",
+        "Context to use for creating CPU threads for preallocation");
     object_class_property_add(oc, "size", "int",
         host_memory_backend_get_size,
         host_memory_backend_set_size,