kvm: support -overcommit cpu-pm=on|off
With this flag, kvm allows guest to control host CPU power state. This
increases latency for other processes using same host CPU in an
unpredictable way, but if decreases idle entry/exit times for the
running VCPU, so to use it QEMU needs a hint about whether host CPU is
overcommitted, hence the flag name.
Follow-up patches will expose this capability to guest
(using mwait leaf).
Based on a patch by Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com> .
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180622192148.178309-2-mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
index 7c9f19a..ef6cfce 100644
--- a/vl.c
+++ b/vl.c
@@ -142,6 +142,7 @@
const char *mem_path = NULL;
int mem_prealloc = 0; /* force preallocation of physical target memory */
bool enable_mlock = false;
+bool enable_cpu_pm = false;
int nb_nics;
NICInfo nd_table[MAX_NICS];
int autostart;
@@ -390,6 +391,22 @@
},
};
+static QemuOptsList qemu_overcommit_opts = {
+ .name = "overcommit",
+ .head = QTAILQ_HEAD_INITIALIZER(qemu_overcommit_opts.head),
+ .desc = {
+ {
+ .name = "mem-lock",
+ .type = QEMU_OPT_BOOL,
+ },
+ {
+ .name = "cpu-pm",
+ .type = QEMU_OPT_BOOL,
+ },
+ { /* end of list */ }
+ },
+};
+
static QemuOptsList qemu_msg_opts = {
.name = "msg",
.head = QTAILQ_HEAD_INITIALIZER(qemu_msg_opts.head),
@@ -3906,7 +3923,20 @@
if (!opts) {
exit(1);
}
- enable_mlock = qemu_opt_get_bool(opts, "mlock", true);
+ /* Don't override the -overcommit option if set */
+ enable_mlock = enable_mlock ||
+ qemu_opt_get_bool(opts, "mlock", true);
+ break;
+ case QEMU_OPTION_overcommit:
+ opts = qemu_opts_parse_noisily(qemu_find_opts("overcommit"),
+ optarg, false);
+ if (!opts) {
+ exit(1);
+ }
+ /* Don't override the -realtime option if set */
+ enable_mlock = enable_mlock ||
+ qemu_opt_get_bool(opts, "mem-lock", false);
+ enable_cpu_pm = qemu_opt_get_bool(opts, "cpu-pm", false);
break;
case QEMU_OPTION_msg:
opts = qemu_opts_parse_noisily(qemu_find_opts("msg"), optarg,
