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    memory: Share special empty FlatView · 092aa2fc
    Alexey Kardashevskiy authored
    
    This shares an cached empty FlatView among address spaces. The empty
    FV is used every time when a root MR renders into a FV without memory
    sections which happens when MR or its children are not enabled or
    zero-sized. The empty_view is not NULL to keep the rest of memory
    API intact; it also has a dispatch tree for the same reason.
    
    On POWER8 with 255 CPUs, 255 virtio-net, 40 PCI bridges guest this halves
    the amount of FlatView's in use (557 -> 260) and dispatch tables
    (~800000 -> ~370000).  In an unrelated experiment with 112 non-virtio
    devices on x86 ("-M pc"), only 4 FlatViews are alive, and about ~2000
    are created at startup.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
    Message-Id: <20170921085110.25598-16-aik@ozlabs.ru>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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    memory: Share special empty FlatView
    Alexey Kardashevskiy authored
    
    This shares an cached empty FlatView among address spaces. The empty
    FV is used every time when a root MR renders into a FV without memory
    sections which happens when MR or its children are not enabled or
    zero-sized. The empty_view is not NULL to keep the rest of memory
    API intact; it also has a dispatch tree for the same reason.
    
    On POWER8 with 255 CPUs, 255 virtio-net, 40 PCI bridges guest this halves
    the amount of FlatView's in use (557 -> 260) and dispatch tables
    (~800000 -> ~370000).  In an unrelated experiment with 112 non-virtio
    devices on x86 ("-M pc"), only 4 FlatViews are alive, and about ~2000
    are created at startup.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
    Message-Id: <20170921085110.25598-16-aik@ozlabs.ru>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>