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Add option to mlock qemu and guest memory

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In certain scenario, latency induced by paging is significant and
memory locking is needed. Also, in the scenario with untrusted
guests, latency improvement due to mlock is desired.

This patch introduces a following new option to mlock guest and
qemu memory:

-realtime mlock=on|off

Signed-off-by: Satoru Moriya <satoru.moriya@hds.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1366382526-26146-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Satoru Moriya 2013-04-19 16:42:06 +02:00 • committed by Anthony Liguori
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@ -2583,6 +2583,19 @@ STEXI
Do not start CPU at startup (you must type 'c' in the monitor).
ETEXI
DEF("realtime", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_realtime,
"-realtime [mlock=on|off]\n"
" run qemu with realtime features\n"
" mlock=on|off controls mlock support (default: on)\n",
QEMU_ARCH_ALL)
STEXI
@item -realtime mlock=on|off
@findex -realtime
Run qemu with realtime features.
mlocking qemu and guest memory can be enabled via @option{mlock=on}
(enabled by default).
ETEXI
DEF("gdb", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_gdb, \
"-gdb dev wait for gdb connection on 'dev'\n", QEMU_ARCH_ALL)
STEXI