coroutine: reserve 5,000 mappings

Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> pointed out that the coroutine
pool size heuristic is very conservative. Instead of halving
max_map_count, he suggested reserving 5,000 mappings for non-coroutine
users based on observations of guests he has access to.

Fixes: 86a637e48104 ("coroutine: cap per-thread local pool size")
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20240320181232.1464819-1-stefanha@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>

diff --git a/util/qemu-coroutine.c b/util/qemu-coroutine.c
index 2790959eaf59b05684f872ca42b899e09bd8a416..eb4eebefdfb5d18b0c8a19f575b292e8e5e03260 100644 (file)
--- a/util/qemu-coroutine.c
+++ b/util/qemu-coroutine.c
@@ -377,12 +377,17 @@ static unsigned int get_global_pool_hard_max_size(void)
                             NULL) &&
         qemu_strtoi(contents, NULL, 10, &max_map_count) == 0) {
         /*
-         * This is a conservative upper bound that avoids exceeding
-         * max_map_count. Leave half for non-coroutine users like library
-         * dependencies, vhost-user, etc. Each coroutine takes up 2 VMAs so
-         * halve the amount again.
+         * This is an upper bound that avoids exceeding max_map_count. Leave a
+         * fixed amount for non-coroutine users like library dependencies,
+         * vhost-user, etc. Each coroutine takes up 2 VMAs so halve the
+         * remaining amount.
          */
-        return max_map_count / 4;
+        if (max_map_count > 5000) {
+            return (max_map_count - 5000) / 2;
+        } else {
+            /* Disable the global pool but threads still have local pools */
+            return 0;
+        }
     }
 #endif