* Juan Quintela ([email protected]) wrote:
> "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > * Juan Quintela ([email protected]) wrote:
> >> This implements the zero page dection and handling.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <[email protected]>
> >>
> >> ---
> >>
> >> Add comment for offset (dave)
> >> }
> >> }
> >>
> >> + for (int i = 0; i < p->zero_num; i++) {
> >> + memset(p->host + p->zero[i], 0, qemu_target_page_size());
> >> + }
> >> +
> >
> > On the existing code, it tries to avoid doing the memset if the target
> > page size matches; that avoids allocating the zero pages on the
> > destination host; should we try and do the same here?
> >
> > Dave
>
> Hi Dave
>
> That only happens on postcopy.
> With precopy we have to do the memset, because we can have:
>
> write non zero to page 50
> migrate page 50
> write zeros to page 50
> Another migration pass
> If we don't write here, we have garbage on the page.
>
> Or I am missing something?
You're missing the call to buffer_is_zero:
void ram_handle_compressed(void *host, uint8_t ch, uint64_t size)
{
if (ch != 0 || !buffer_is_zero(host, size)) {
memset(host, ch, size);
}
}
so it checks the buffer to see if it was non-zero before doing the
memset.
Dave
> Later, Juan.
>
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert / [email protected] / Manchester, UK
