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KVM: X86: Dynamically allocate user_fpu

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After reverting commit 240c35a378 (kvm: x86: Use task structs fpu field
for user), struct kvm_vcpu is 19456 bytes on my server, PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER(3)
is the order at which allocations are deemed costly to service. In serveless
scenario, one host can service hundreds/thoudands firecracker/kata-container
instances, howerver, new instance will fail to launch after memory is too
fragmented to allocate kvm_vcpu struct on host, this was observed in some
cloud provider product environments.

This patch dynamically allocates user_fpu, kvm_vcpu is 15168 bytes now on my
Skylake server.

Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Wanpeng Li
2019-07-22 12:26:21 +08:00
committed by Paolo Bonzini
parent e751732486
commit d9a710e5fc
4 changed files with 27 additions and 5 deletions
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arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
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@@ -616,7 +616,7 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_arch {
* "guest_fpu" state here contains the guest FPU context, with the
* host PRKU bits.
*/
struct fpu user_fpu;
struct fpu *user_fpu;
struct fpu *guest_fpu;
u64 xcr0;