From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752278AbeAXDJ1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jan 2018 22:09:27 -0500 Received: from mga07.intel.com ([134.134.136.100]:41492 "EHLO mga07.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752009AbeAXDJ0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jan 2018 22:09:26 -0500 X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.46,405,1511856000"; d="scan'208";a="28978301" From: Wei Wang To: virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, mst@redhat.com, mhocko@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com, wei.w.wang@intel.com, liliang.opensource@gmail.com, yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com, quan.xu0@gmail.com, nilal@redhat.com, riel@redhat.com Subject: [PATCH v23 0/2] Virtio-balloon: support free page reporting Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 10:50:25 +0800 Message-Id: <1516762227-36346-1-git-send-email-wei.w.wang@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This patch series is separated from the previous "Virtio-balloon Enhancement" series. The new feature, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_VQ, implemented by this series enables the virtio-balloon driver to report hints of guest free pages to the host. It can be used to accelerate live migration of VMs. Here is an introduction of this usage: Live migration needs to transfer the VM's memory from the source machine to the destination round by round. For the 1st round, all the VM's memory is transferred. From the 2nd round, only the pieces of memory that were written by the guest (after the 1st round) are transferred. One method that is popularly used by the hypervisor to track which part of memory is written is to write-protect all the guest memory. The second feature enables the optimization of the 1st round memory transfer - the hypervisor can skip the transfer of guest free pages in the 1st round. It is not concerned that the memory pages are used after they are given to the hypervisor as a hint of the free pages, because they will be tracked by the hypervisor and transferred in the next round if they are used and written. ChangeLog: v22->v23: - change to kick the device when the vq is half-way full; - open-code batch_free_page_sg into add_one_sg; - change cmd_id from "uint32_t" to "__virtio32"; - reserver one entry in the vq for teh driver to send cmd_id, instead of busywaiting for an available entry; - add "stop_update" check before queue_work for prudence purpose for now, will have a separate patch to discuss this flag check later; - init_vqs: change to put some variables on stack to have simpler implementation; - add destroy_workqueue(vb->balloon_wq); v21->v22: - add_one_sg: some code and comment re-arrangement - send_cmd_id: handle a cornercase For previous ChangeLog, please reference https://lwn.net/Articles/743660/ Wei Wang (2): mm: support reporting free page blocks virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_VQ drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 228 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ include/linux/mm.h | 6 + include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h | 6 + mm/page_alloc.c | 91 ++++++++++++++ 4 files changed, 298 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-) -- 2.7.4