RE: [Xen-devel] map memory holes with same page

[Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Deegan
> Sent: 23 May 2011 10:13
> To: Paul Durrant
> Cc: James Harper; Keir Fraser; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] map memory holes with same page
> 
> At 09:42 +0100 on 23 May (1306143771), Paul Durrant wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > [snip]
> > >
> > > Should there be a performance impact if Windows tries to touch a
> > > page that I have previously given pack with
> decrease_reservation?
> > > Will that invoke the PoD sweep?
> > >
> >
> > No. The p2m entry will be 'invalid', not 'PoD'. IIRC the sweep
> should
> > only be invoked if the cache is exhausted when trying to fix up a
> PoD
> > entry.
> 
> But yes, there will be a performance impact because all accesses to
> the missing page will be emulated by sending an ioreq to qemu, so it
> will run _very_ slowly.
> 

Good point. That would explain why a hibernate would be slow vs. a crashdump 
(if it's going through and trying to compress ballooned out pages).

  Paul

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