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Currently, the postcopy blocktime feature maintains vCPU fault information using an array (vcpu_addr[]). It has two issues. Issue 1: Performance Concern ============================ The old algorithm was almost OK and fast on inserts, except that the lookup is slow and won't scale if there are a lot of vCPUs: when a page is copied during postcopy, mark_postcopy_blocktime_end() will walk the whole array trying to find which vCPUs are blocked by the address. So it needs constant O(N) walk for each page resolution. Alexey (the author of postcopy blocktime) mentioned the perf issue and how to optimize it in a piece of comment in the page resolution path. The comment was (interestingly..) not complete, but it's relatively clear what he wanted to say about this perf issue. Issue 2: Wrong Accounting on re-entrancies ========================================== People might think that each vCPU should only and always get one fault at a time, so that when the blocktime layer captured one fault on one vCPU, we should never see another fault message on this vCPU. It's almost correct, except in some extreme rare cases. Case 1: it's possible the fault thread processes the userfaultfd messages too fast so it can see >1 messages on one vCPU before the previous one was resolved. Case 2: it's theoretically also possible one vCPU can get even more than one message on the same fault address if a fault is retried by the kernel (e.g., handle_userfault() got interrupted before page resolution). As this info might be important, instead of using commit message, I put more details into the code as comment, when introducing an array maintaining concurrent faults on one vCPU. Please refer to the comments for details on both cases, especially case 1 which can be tricky. Case 1 sounds rare, but it can be easily reproduced locally for me when we run blocktime together with the migration-test on the vanilla postcopy. New Design ========== This patch should do almost what Alexey mentioned, but slightly differently: instead of having an array to maintain vCPU fault addresses, for each of the fault message we push a message into a hash, indexed by the fault address. With the hash, it can replace the old two structs: both the vcpu_addr[] array, and also the array to store the start time of the fault. However due to above we need one more counter array to account concurrent faults on the same vCPU - that should even be needed in the old code, it's just that the old code was buggy and it will blindly overwrite an existing entry.. now we'll start to really track everything. The hash structure might be more efficient than tree to maintain such addr->(cpu, fault_time) information, so that the insert() and lookup() paths should ideally both be ~O(1). After all, we do not need to sort. Here we need to do one remove() though after the lookup(). It could be slow but only if many vCPUs faulted exactly on the same address (so when the list of cpu entries is long), which should be unlikely. Even with that, it's still a worst case O(N) (consider 400 vCPUs faulted on the same address and how likely is it..) rather than a constant O(N) complexity. When at it, touch up the tracepoints to make them slightly more useful. One tracepoint is added when walking all the fault entries. Reviewed-by: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250613141217.474825-13-peterx@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>
=========== QEMU README =========== QEMU is a generic and open source machine & userspace emulator and virtualizer. QEMU is capable of emulating a complete machine in software without any need for hardware virtualization support. By using dynamic translation, it achieves very good performance. QEMU can also integrate with the Xen and KVM hypervisors to provide emulated hardware while allowing the hypervisor to manage the CPU. With hypervisor support, QEMU can achieve near native performance for CPUs. When QEMU emulates CPUs directly it is capable of running operating systems made for one machine (e.g. an ARMv7 board) on a different machine (e.g. an x86_64 PC board). QEMU is also capable of providing userspace API virtualization for Linux and BSD kernel interfaces. This allows binaries compiled against one architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux PPC64 ABI) to be run on a host using a different architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux x86_64 ABI). This does not involve any hardware emulation, simply CPU and syscall emulation. QEMU aims to fit into a variety of use cases. It can be invoked directly by users wishing to have full control over its behaviour and settings. It also aims to facilitate integration into higher level management layers, by providing a stable command line interface and monitor API. It is commonly invoked indirectly via the libvirt library when using open source applications such as oVirt, OpenStack and virt-manager. QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License, version 2. For full licensing details, consult the LICENSE file. Documentation ============= Documentation can be found hosted online at `<https://www.qemu.org/documentation/>`_. The documentation for the current development version that is available at `<https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/>`_ is generated from the ``docs/`` folder in the source tree, and is built by `Sphinx <https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/>`_. Building ======== QEMU is multi-platform software intended to be buildable on all modern Linux platforms, OS-X, Win32 (via the Mingw64 toolchain) and a variety of other UNIX targets. The simple steps to build QEMU are: .. code-block:: shell mkdir build cd build ../configure make Additional information can also be found online via the QEMU website: * `<https://wiki.qemu.org/Hosts/Linux>`_ * `<https://wiki.qemu.org/Hosts/Mac>`_ * `<https://wiki.qemu.org/Hosts/W32>`_ Submitting patches ================== The QEMU source code is maintained under the GIT version control system. .. code-block:: shell git clone https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu.git When submitting patches, one common approach is to use 'git format-patch' and/or 'git send-email' to format & send the mail to the qemu-devel@nongnu.org mailing list. All patches submitted must contain a 'Signed-off-by' line from the author. Patches should follow the guidelines set out in the `style section <https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/devel/style.html>`_ of the Developers Guide. Additional information on submitting patches can be found online via the QEMU website: * `<https://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch>`_ * `<https://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/TrivialPatches>`_ The QEMU website is also maintained under source control. .. code-block:: shell git clone https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu-web.git * `<https://www.qemu.org/2017/02/04/the-new-qemu-website-is-up/>`_ A 'git-publish' utility was created to make above process less cumbersome, and is highly recommended for making regular contributions, or even just for sending consecutive patch series revisions. It also requires a working 'git send-email' setup, and by default doesn't automate everything, so you may want to go through the above steps manually for once. For installation instructions, please go to: * `<https://github.com/stefanha/git-publish>`_ The workflow with 'git-publish' is: .. code-block:: shell $ git checkout master -b my-feature $ # work on new commits, add your 'Signed-off-by' lines to each $ git publish Your patch series will be sent and tagged as my-feature-v1 if you need to refer back to it in the future. Sending v2: .. code-block:: shell $ git checkout my-feature # same topic branch $ # making changes to the commits (using 'git rebase', for example) $ git publish Your patch series will be sent with 'v2' tag in the subject and the git tip will be tagged as my-feature-v2. Bug reporting ============= The QEMU project uses GitLab issues to track bugs. Bugs found when running code built from QEMU git or upstream released sources should be reported via: * `<https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues>`_ If using QEMU via an operating system vendor pre-built binary package, it is preferable to report bugs to the vendor's own bug tracker first. If the bug is also known to affect latest upstream code, it can also be reported via GitLab. For additional information on bug reporting consult: * `<https://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/ReportABug>`_ ChangeLog ========= For version history and release notes, please visit `<https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/>`_ or look at the git history for more detailed information. Contact ======= The QEMU community can be contacted in a number of ways, with the two main methods being email and IRC: * `<mailto:qemu-devel@nongnu.org>`_ * `<https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel>`_ * #qemu on irc.oftc.net Information on additional methods of contacting the community can be found online via the QEMU website: * `<https://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/StartHere>`_