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In case this patch gets overlooked as time goes on.

On Thu, Jun 18, 2026 at 8:58 AM Hy Man <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Ping。
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> Hi Paolo, could you please take a look at this patch, I’d appreciate
> your feedback on this patch.
>
> On Fri, Jun 5, 2026 at 4:22 PM Hy Man <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Hyman Huang <[email protected]>
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 4, 2026 at 3:00 PM Bin Guo <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > The reaper polls with sleep(1) (TODO in the code) and only notices
> > > dirty-limit teardown at the next 1s tick.
> > >
> > > Replace the sleep with qemu_poll_ns() on an EventNotifier, kicked
> > > from dirtylimit_state_finalize() after dirtylimit_state has been
> > > cleared.  The kick must follow the NULL assignment: kicking earlier
> > > wakes the reaper while dirtylimit_in_service() still returns true,
> > > so it just loops back to wait.  A 1s fallback timeout remains as a
> > > liveness backstop.
> > >
> > > 20 set-/cancel-vcpu-dirty-limit cycles via QMP, |reaper-wake -
> > > cancel-ack| measured with strace on the reaper TID:
> > >
> > >     before: median 255 ms, max 502 ms
> > >     after:  median 0.6 ms, max  27 ms
> > >
> > > kvm_dirty_ring_reaper_init() returns int again (was made void in
> > > commit 43a5e377f4) to propagate event_notifier_init() failure.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Bin Guo <[email protected]>
> > > ---
> > > Changes in v2:
> > > - Fix compilation error: kvm_init() has no Error **errp parameter, so
> > >   kvm_dirty_ring_reaper_init() now uses error_report() directly and
> > >   no longer accepts an errp argument.
> > > - Remove the kick from kvm_cpu_exec() KVM_EXIT_DIRTY_RING_FULL handler:
> > >   it already reaps synchronously (all vCPUs or the ring-full one), so
> > >   a background reaper kick would only be redundant or a no-op.
> > > - Move kick site from dirtylimit_change(false) to
> > >   dirtylimit_state_finalize() after dirtylimit_state = NULL, ensuring
> > >   the reaper actually proceeds past the dirtylimit_in_service() check.
> > >
> > >  accel/kvm/kvm-all.c      | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
> > >  accel/stubs/kvm-stub.c   |  4 ++++
> > >  include/system/kvm.h     |  7 +++++++
> > >  include/system/kvm_int.h |  3 +++
> > >  system/dirtylimit.c      |  2 ++
> > >  5 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/accel/kvm/kvm-all.c b/accel/kvm/kvm-all.c
> > > index 96f90ebb24..be005832bc 100644
> > > --- a/accel/kvm/kvm-all.c
> > > +++ b/accel/kvm/kvm-all.c
> > > @@ -1754,6 +1754,8 @@ static void kvm_set_phys_mem(KVMMemoryListener *kml,
> > >      } while (size);
> > >  }
> > >
> > > +#define KVM_DIRTY_RING_REAPER_FALLBACK_NS  (1 * NANOSECONDS_PER_SECOND)
> > > +
> > >  static void *kvm_dirty_ring_reaper_thread(void *data)
> > >  {
> > >      KVMState *s = data;
> > > @@ -1764,12 +1766,18 @@ static void *kvm_dirty_ring_reaper_thread(void 
> > > *data)
> > >      trace_kvm_dirty_ring_reaper("init");
> > >
> > >      while (true) {
> > > +        GPollFD pfd = {
> > > +            .fd = event_notifier_get_fd(&r->reaper_notifier),
> > > +            .events = G_IO_IN,
> > > +        };
> > > +
> > >          r->reaper_state = KVM_DIRTY_RING_REAPER_WAIT;
> > >          trace_kvm_dirty_ring_reaper("wait");
> > > -        /*
> > > -         * TODO: provide a smarter timeout rather than a constant?
> > > -         */
> > > -        sleep(1);
> > > +
> > > +        qemu_poll_ns(&pfd, 1, KVM_DIRTY_RING_REAPER_FALLBACK_NS);
> > > +
> > > +        /* Drain unconditionally so a stale event can't spin the next 
> > > loop. */
> > > +        event_notifier_test_and_clear(&r->reaper_notifier);
> > >
> > >          /* keep sleeping so that dirtylimit not be interfered by reaper 
> > > */
> > >          if (dirtylimit_in_service()) {
> > > @@ -1789,13 +1797,32 @@ static void *kvm_dirty_ring_reaper_thread(void 
> > > *data)
> > >      g_assert_not_reached();
> > >  }
> > >
> > > -static void kvm_dirty_ring_reaper_init(KVMState *s)
> > > +static int kvm_dirty_ring_reaper_init(KVMState *s)
> > >  {
> > >      struct KVMDirtyRingReaper *r = &s->reaper;
> > > +    int ret;
> > > +
> > > +    ret = event_notifier_init(&r->reaper_notifier, 0);
> > > +    if (ret < 0) {
> > > +        error_report("Failed to initialize dirty ring reaper notifier: 
> > > %s",
> > > +                     strerror(-ret));
> > > +        return ret;
> > > +    }
> > >
> > >      qemu_thread_create(&r->reaper_thr, "kvm-reaper",
> > >                         kvm_dirty_ring_reaper_thread,
> > >                         s, QEMU_THREAD_JOINABLE);
> > > +    return 0;
> > > +}
> > > +
> > > +void kvm_dirty_ring_reaper_kick(void)
> > > +{
> > > +    KVMState *s = kvm_state;
> > > +
> > > +    if (!s || !s->kvm_dirty_ring_size) {
> > > +        return;
> > > +    }
> > > +    event_notifier_set(&s->reaper.reaper_notifier);
> > >  }
> > >
> > >  static int kvm_dirty_ring_init(KVMState *s)
> > > @@ -3097,7 +3124,10 @@ static int kvm_init(AccelState *as, MachineState 
> > > *ms)
> > >      }
> > >
> > >      if (s->kvm_dirty_ring_size) {
> > > -        kvm_dirty_ring_reaper_init(s);
> > > +        ret = kvm_dirty_ring_reaper_init(s);
> > > +        if (ret < 0) {
> > > +            goto err;
> > > +        }
> > >      }
> > >
> > >      if (kvm_check_extension(kvm_state, KVM_CAP_BINARY_STATS_FD)) {
> > > diff --git a/accel/stubs/kvm-stub.c b/accel/stubs/kvm-stub.c
> > > index c4617caac6..b878598552 100644
> > > --- a/accel/stubs/kvm-stub.c
> > > +++ b/accel/stubs/kvm-stub.c
> > > @@ -134,6 +134,10 @@ uint32_t kvm_dirty_ring_size(void)
> > >      return 0;
> > >  }
> > >
> > > +void kvm_dirty_ring_reaper_kick(void)
> > > +{
> > > +}
> > > +
> > >  bool kvm_hwpoisoned_mem(void)
> > >  {
> > >      return false;
> > > diff --git a/include/system/kvm.h b/include/system/kvm.h
> > > index 5fa33eddda..e127a5eb37 100644
> > > --- a/include/system/kvm.h
> > > +++ b/include/system/kvm.h
> > > @@ -553,6 +553,13 @@ bool kvm_dirty_ring_enabled(void);
> > >
> > >  uint32_t kvm_dirty_ring_size(void);
> > >
> > > +/**
> > > + * kvm_dirty_ring_reaper_kick - wake the background dirty ring reaper.
> > > + *
> > > + * Safe from any thread; no-op when the dirty ring is not in use.
> > > + */
> > > +void kvm_dirty_ring_reaper_kick(void);
> > > +
> > >  void kvm_mark_guest_state_protected(void);
> > >
> > >  /**
> > > diff --git a/include/system/kvm_int.h b/include/system/kvm_int.h
> > > index 0876aac938..c14ebc927f 100644
> > > --- a/include/system/kvm_int.h
> > > +++ b/include/system/kvm_int.h
> > > @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
> > >  #include "system/memory.h"
> > >  #include "qapi/qapi-types-common.h"
> > >  #include "qemu/accel.h"
> > > +#include "qemu/event_notifier.h"
> > >  #include "qemu/queue.h"
> > >  #include "system/kvm.h"
> > >  #include "accel/accel-ops.h"
> > > @@ -100,6 +101,8 @@ struct KVMDirtyRingReaper {
> > >      QemuThread reaper_thr;
> > >      volatile uint64_t reaper_iteration; /* iteration number of reaper 
> > > thr */
> > >      volatile enum KVMDirtyRingReaperState reaper_state; /* reap thr 
> > > state */
> > > +    /* Wakeup channel: kicked when dirty-limit is torn down. */
> > > +    EventNotifier reaper_notifier;
> > >  };
> > >  struct KVMState
> > >  {
> > > diff --git a/system/dirtylimit.c b/system/dirtylimit.c
> > > index c934ceb0de..a33256ade7 100644
> > > --- a/system/dirtylimit.c
> > > +++ b/system/dirtylimit.c
> > > @@ -239,6 +239,8 @@ void dirtylimit_state_finalize(void)
> > >      g_free(dirtylimit_state);
> > >      dirtylimit_state = NULL;
> > >
> > > +    kvm_dirty_ring_reaper_kick();
> > > +
> > >      trace_dirtylimit_state_finalize();
> > >  }
> > >
> > > --
> > > 2.50.1 (Apple Git-155)
> > >

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