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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1 of 2] tools/libxc: Remus Checkpoint Compression


On 2011-06-16, at 10:46 AM, Shriram Rajagopalan wrote:

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Brendan Cully <brendan.cully@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thursday, 16 June 2011 at 08:50, Shriram Rajagopalan wrote:
> # HG changeset patch
> # User Shriram Rajagopalan <rshriram@xxxxxxxxx>
> # Date 1308238095 25200
> # Node ID 5dbafaf24c7036f3e24e4387797b32e59d732ac6
> # Parent  23c068b109236657ededa3e3b7f180346a5cd9f9
> tools/libxc: Remus Checkpoint Compression
>
> Instead of sending dirty pages of guest memory as-is, use a simple compression
> algorithm that sends a RLE-encoded XOR of the page against its last sent copy.
> A small LRU cache is used to hold recently dirtied pages. Pagetable pages are
> sent as-is, as they are canonicalized at sender side and uncanonicalized at
> receiver.
>
> Signed-off-by: Shriram Rajagopalan <rshriram@xxxxxxxxx>
...
> @@ -1395,6 +1455,7 @@
>          }
>
>          pagebuf.nr_physpages = pagebuf.nr_pages = 0;
> +        pagebuf.compbuf_pos = pagebuf.compbuf_size = 0;
>
>          n += j; /* crude stats */
>

Is that zeroing compbuf_size at the end of every round? Does that mean
you're doing a realloc for every single page you ever receive? Ouch.

We have already talked about it offline and I dont mind explaining it "again" :).
Its a realloc for every compressed chunk. And a compressed chunk is
made of as many pages as the 16MB outbuf on sender side can hold.

Actually, I never received a reply yesterday when I asked this exact question, which is why I'm replying on-list. 

I still don't understand why you're zeroing this field while you still have a buffer allocated. It's misleading and can (and probably will) cause unnecessary reallocs. Glad to hear you're not doing this at every page though.
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