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From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: Hyman Huang <yong.huang@smartx.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>, Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>,
	Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com>,
	"Michael S . Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] virtio-balloon: Enable free page hinting during PRECOPY_NOTIFY_SETUP
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 11:10:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b9b795a0-487c-4750-b4ed-31c79770c8cb@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c799b1f96e55c5eb9c07e5a70a51b8ba67e7bcc9.1731128180.git.yong.huang@smartx.com>

On 09.11.24 05:59, Hyman Huang wrote:
> PRECOPY_NOTIFY_AFTER_BITMAP_SYNC was interpreted by free page hinting
> optimization as an indication to begin freeing pages. But there's no
> assurance that a sync is required when beginning a migration. Therefore,
> during PRECOPY_NOTIFY_SETUP, as well as PRECOPY_NOTIFY_AFTER_BITMAP_SYNC,
> enable free page hinting.

But what does this change bring us in practice? How was it tested that 
this makes any difference?

-- 
Cheers,

David / dhildenb



  reply	other threads:[~2024-11-12 10:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-11-09  4:59 [PATCH v1 0/2] migration: Skip the first dirty sync Hyman Huang
2024-11-09  4:59 ` [PATCH v1 1/2] virtio-balloon: Enable free page hinting during PRECOPY_NOTIFY_SETUP Hyman Huang
2024-11-12 10:10   ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
2024-11-09  4:59 ` [PATCH v1 2/2] migration: Do not perform RAMBlock dirty sync during the first iteration Hyman Huang
2024-11-11  9:07   ` Wang, Wei W
2024-11-11 10:20     ` Yong Huang
2024-11-11  9:27   ` David Hildenbrand
2024-11-11 10:08     ` Yong Huang
2024-11-11 10:42       ` David Hildenbrand
2024-11-11 11:14         ` Yong Huang
2024-11-11 11:37         ` Yong Huang
2024-11-12 10:08           ` David Hildenbrand
2024-11-13 17:40             ` Peter Xu
2024-11-13 18:49               ` David Hildenbrand
2024-11-13 20:12                 ` Peter Xu
2024-11-14  9:02                   ` David Hildenbrand
2024-11-14 19:28                     ` Peter Xu
2024-11-14 21:16                       ` David Hildenbrand
2024-11-14 22:40                         ` Peter Xu
2024-11-15  9:11                           ` David Hildenbrand
2024-11-15 15:41                             ` Peter Xu
2024-11-15 15:49                               ` David Hildenbrand

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