Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] KVM: ioctl for populating guest_memfd

[David Hildenbrand]

> > No, I can't immediately see why it shouldn't work.  My main concern
> > would probably still be about the latency of the population stage as I
> > can't see why it would improve compared to what we have now, because my
>   > feeling is this is linked with the sharedness property of guest_memfd.
>
> If the problem is the "pagecache" overhead, then yes, it will be a
> harder nut to crack. But maybe there are some low-hanging fruits to
> optimize? Finding the main cause for the added overhead would be
> interesting.

Can you compare uffdio_copy() when using anonymous memory vs. shmem? 
That's likely the best we could currently achieve with guest_memfd.

There is the tools/testing/selftests/mm/uffd-stress benchmark, not sure 
if that is of any help; it SEGFAULTS for me right now with a (likely) 
division by 0.

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Cheers,

David / dhildenb