virtio-mem: try to merge system ram resources
virtio-mem adds memory in memory block granularity, to be able to remove it in the same granularity again later, and to grow slowly on demand. This, however, results in quite a lot of resources when adding a lot of memory. Resources are effectively stored in a list-based tree. Having a lot of resources not only wastes memory, it also makes traversing that tree more expensive, and makes /proc/iomem explode in size (e.g., requiring kexec-tools to manually merge resources later when e.g., trying to create a kdump header). Before this patch, we get (/proc/iomem) when hotplugging 2G via virtio-mem on x86-64: [...] 100000000-13fffffff : System RAM 140000000-33fffffff : virtio0 140000000-147ffffff : System RAM (virtio_mem) 148000000-14fffffff : System RAM (virtio_mem) 150000000-157ffffff : System RAM (virtio_mem) 158000000-15fffffff : System RAM (virtio_mem) 160000000-167ffffff : System RAM (virtio_mem) 168000000-16fffffff : System RAM (virtio_mem) 170000000-177ffffff : System RAM (virtio_mem) 178000000-17fffffff : System RAM (virtio_mem) 180000000-187ffffff : System RAM (virtio_mem) 188000000-18fffffff : System RAM (virtio_mem) 190000000-197ffffff : System RAM (virtio_mem) 198000000-19fffffff : System RAM (virtio_mem) 1a0000000-1a7ffffff : System RAM (virtio_mem) 1a8000000-1afffffff : System RAM (virtio_mem) 1b0000000-1b7ffffff : System RAM (virtio_mem) 1b8000000-1bfffffff : System RAM (virtio_mem) 3280000000-32ffffffff : PCI Bus 0000:00 With this patch, we get (/proc/iomem): [...] fffc0000-ffffffff : Reserved 100000000-13fffffff : System RAM 140000000-33fffffff : virtio0 140000000-1bfffffff : System RAM (virtio_mem) 3280000000-32ffffffff : PCI Bus 0000:00 Of course, with more hotplugged memory, it gets worse. When unplugging memory blocks again, try_remove_memory() (via offline_and_remove_memory()) will properly split the resource up again. Signed-off-by:David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by:
Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Wei Yang <richardw.yang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@ozlabs.org> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Julien Grall <julien@xen.org> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Leonardo Bras <leobras.c@gmail.com> Cc: Libor Pechacek <lpechacek@suse.cz> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@linux.ibm.com> Cc: "Oliver O'Halloran" <oohall@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@gmail.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> Cc: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200911103459.10306-7-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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