Message ID | 20220603065645.10019-1-imbrenda@linux.ibm.com (mailing list archive) |
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Headers | show |
Series | KVM: s390: pv: implement lazy destroy for reboot | expand |
On 6/3/22 08:56, Claudio Imbrenda wrote: > Previously, when a protected VM was rebooted or when it was shut down, > its memory was made unprotected, and then the protected VM itself was > destroyed. Looping over the whole address space can take some time, > considering the overhead of the various Ultravisor Calls (UVCs). This > means that a reboot or a shutdown would take a potentially long amount > of time, depending on the amount of used memory. > > This patchseries implements a deferred destroy mechanism for protected > guests. When a protected guest is destroyed, its memory can be cleared > in background, allowing the guest to restart or terminate significantly > faster than before. > > There are 2 possibilities when a protected VM is torn down: > * it still has an address space associated (reboot case) > * it does not have an address space anymore (shutdown case) > Please add patches 1-13 to devel for some CI coverage. I'll try reviewing the remaining patches this week.