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Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20200412090728.GA19572@open-light-1.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 4/12/20 2:07 AM, liliangleo wrote: > Zero out the page content usually happens when allocating pages, > this is a time consuming operation, it makes pin and mlock > operation very slowly, especially for a large batch of memory. > > This patch introduce a new feature for zero out pages before page > allocation, it can help to speed up page allocation. I think the bar for getting something like this merged is going to be pretty high. We have a long history of zeroing close to page use for cache warmth reasons. Starting up big VMs which won't soon touch the memory they are allocating is basically the most pathological case against our approach since they don't *care* about cache warmth. I'm also not sure it's something we _want_ to optimize for. VFIO's unconditional page pinning is the real problem here IMNHO. They don't *really* need to pin the memory. We just don't have good paravirtualized IOMMU support or want to pay the runtime cost for pin/unpin operations. You *could* totally have speedy VM startup if only the pages being accessed or having DMA performed to them were allocated. But, the hacks that are in place mean that everything must be pinned.