Use Neon instructions to perform zero checking of
buffer. This is helps in reducing total migration time.
Use case: Idle VM live migration with 4 VCPUS and 8GB ram
running CentOS 7.
Without Neon, the Total migration time is 3.5 Sec
Migration status: completed
total time: 3560 milliseconds
downtime: 33 milliseconds
setup: 5 milliseconds
transferred ram: 297907 kbytes
throughput: 685.76 mbps
remaining ram: 0 kbytes
total ram: 8519872 kbytes
duplicate: 2062760 pages
skipped: 0 pages
normal: 69808 pages
normal bytes: 279232 kbytes
dirty sync count: 3
With Neon, the total migration time is 2.9 Sec
Migration status: completed
total time: 2960 milliseconds
downtime: 65 milliseconds
setup: 4 milliseconds
transferred ram: 299869 kbytes
throughput: 830.19 mbps
remaining ram: 0 kbytes
total ram: 8519872 kbytes
duplicate: 2064313 pages
skipped: 0 pages
normal: 70294 pages
normal bytes: 281176 kbytes
dirty sync count: 3
Backports commit 7069532e3b944c25707d4f69998e68a739eabff9 from qemu
Move declarations out of qemu-common.h for functions declared in
utils/ files: e.g. include/qemu/path.h for utils/path.c.
Move inline functions out of qemu-common.h and into new files (e.g.
include/qemu/bcd.h)
Backports commit f348b6d1a53e5271cf1c9f9acc4646b4b98c1771 from qemu
Not only it makes sense, but it gets rid of checkpatch warning:
WARNING: consider using qemu_strtosz in preference to strtosz
Also remove get rid of tabs to please checkpatch.
Backports commit 4677bb40f809394bef5fa07329dea855c0371697 from qemu
Clean up includes so that osdep.h is included first and headers
which it implies are not included manually.
This commit was created with scripts/clean-includes.
Backports commit aafd758410015e08b1aa8964d739ba8587ce58dc from qemu
