In order to reduce the memory footprint when PVH kernel and initrd
are used, we map them into memory instead of reading them.
In this way we can share them between multiple instances of QEMU.
These are the results using a PVH kernel and initrd (cpio):
- memory footprint (using smem) [MB]
QEMU before now
# instances USS PSS USS PSS
1 102.0M 105.8M 102.3M 106.2M
2 94.6M 101.2M 72.3M 90.1M
4 94.1M 98.0M 72.0M 81.5M
8 94.0M 96.2M 71.8M 76.9M
16 93.9M 95.1M 71.6M 74.3M
Initrd size: 3.0M
Kernel
image size: 28M
sections size [size -A -d vmlinux]: 18.9M
- boot time [ms]
before now
qemu_init_end: 63.85 55.91
linux_start_kernel: 82.11 (+18.26) 74.51 (+18.60)
linux_start_user: 169.94 (+87.83) 159.06 (+84.56)
QEMU command used:
./qemu-system-x86_64 -bios /path/to/seabios/out/bios.bin -no-hpet \
-machine q35,accel=kvm,kernel_irqchip,nvdimm,sata=off,smbus=off,vmport=off \
-cpu host -m 1G -smp 1 -vga none -display none -no-user-config -nodefaults \
-kernel /path/to/vmlinux -initrd /path/to/rootfs.cpio \
-append 'root=/dev/mem0 ro console=hvc0 pci=lastbus=0 nosmap'
Stefano Garzarella (2):
elf-ops.h: Map into memory the ELF to load
hw/i386/pc: Map into memory the initrd
hw/i386/pc.c | 15 ++++++++---
include/hw/elf_ops.h | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
2 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)
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