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From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	Nitesh Narayan Lal <nitesh@redhat.com>,
	kvm list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Yang Zhang <yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com>,
	pagupta@redhat.com, Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	lcapitulino@redhat.com, wei.w.wang@intel.com,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	dan.j.williams@intel.com,
	Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
	Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 6/6] virtio-balloon: Add support for providing unused page reports to host
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 09:09:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKgT0UekkEDPxDQ6J5uQZb92UDMq_fgHHo+tzGVP-jLWNAOp9w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ddb2c4a9-c515-617f-770a-90625c08c829@redhat.com>

On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 8:50 AM David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 12.08.19 17:20, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 2:53 AM Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 03:42:19PM -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> >>> From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> >>> --- a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h
> >>> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h
> >>> @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
> >>>  #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_DEFLATE_ON_OOM      2 /* Deflate balloon on OOM */
> >>>  #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT      3 /* VQ to report free pages */
> >>>  #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_POISON 4 /* Guest is using page poisoning */
> >>> +#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_REPORTING   5 /* Page reporting virtqueue */
> >>>
> >>>  /* Size of a PFN in the balloon interface. */
> >>>  #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_PFN_SHIFT 12
> >>
> >> Just a small comment: same as any feature bit,
> >> or indeed any host/guest interface changes, please
> >> CC virtio-dev on any changes to this UAPI file.
> >> We must maintain these in the central place in the spec,
> >> otherwise we run a risk of conflicts.
> >>
> >
> > Okay, other than that if I resubmit with the virtio-dev list added to
> > you thing this patch set is ready to be acked and pulled into either
> > the virtio or mm tree assuming there is no other significant feedback
> > that comes in?
> >
>
> I want to take a detailed look at the mm bits (might take a bit but I
> don't see a need to rush). I am fine with the page flag we are using.
> Hope some other mm people (cc'ing Michal and Oscar) can have a look.

Agreed. I just wanted to make sure we had the virtio bits locked in as
my concern was that some of the other MM maintainers might be waiting
on that.

I'll see about submitting a v5, hopefully before the end of today with
Michal, Oscar, and the virtio-dev mailing list also included.

Thanks.

- Alex

  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-12 16:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-07 22:41 [PATCH v4 0/6] mm / virtio: Provide support for unused page reporting Alexander Duyck
2019-08-07 22:41 ` [PATCH v4 1/6] mm: Adjust shuffle code to allow for future coalescing Alexander Duyck
2019-08-07 22:41 ` [PATCH v4 2/6] mm: Move set/get_pcppage_migratetype to mmzone.h Alexander Duyck
2019-08-07 22:42 ` [PATCH v4 3/6] mm: Use zone and order instead of free area in free_list manipulators Alexander Duyck
2019-08-07 22:42 ` [PATCH v4 4/6] mm: Introduce Reported pages Alexander Duyck
2019-08-08 13:45   ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-08-08 15:11     ` Alexander Duyck
2019-08-07 22:42 ` [PATCH v4 5/6] virtio-balloon: Pull page poisoning config out of free page hinting Alexander Duyck
2019-08-07 22:42 ` [PATCH v4 6/6] virtio-balloon: Add support for providing unused page reports to host Alexander Duyck
2019-08-12  9:53   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-08-12 15:20     ` Alexander Duyck
2019-08-12 15:43       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-08-12 15:49       ` David Hildenbrand
2019-08-12 16:09         ` Alexander Duyck [this message]
2019-08-07 22:43 ` [PATCH v4 QEMU 1/3] virtio-ballon: Implement support for page poison tracking feature Alexander Duyck
2019-08-07 22:43 ` [PATCH v4 QEMU 2/3] virtio-balloon: Add bit to notify guest of unused page reporting Alexander Duyck
2019-08-07 22:43 ` [PATCH v4 QEMU 3/3] virtio-balloon: Provide a interface for " Alexander Duyck

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