From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: nilal@redhat.com
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, pbonzini@redhat.com, pagupta@redhat.com,
wei.w.wang@intel.com, yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com, riel@redhat.com,
david@redhat.com, mst@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Patch v3 0/5] KVM: Guest page hinting
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 14:49:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171011184931.GD20833@char.us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171010183923.7982-1-nilal@redhat.com>
On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 02:39:18PM -0400, nilal@redhat.com wrote:
> The following patch-set proposes an efficient mechanism for handing freed memory between the guest and the host. It enables the guests with DAX (no page cache) to rapidly free and reclaim memory to and from the host respectively.
>
> Changelog in V3:
> -A new hinting_vq is added to virtio_balloon for the usage of guest page hinting
> -Implmentation to pass hyperlist entries to the host via hinting_vq
> -Basic functional testing for this support is done
>
> Virtio interface changes are picked up from Wei's patch-set for Virtio-balloon enhancement[3]. "Wei, How would you like me to credit you in the final patch?")
Since VirtIO is an offical specification, is OASIS working through
the changes in the spec that the implementation has?
>
> [1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg153666.html
> [2] https://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg155471.html
> [3] http://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg152734.html
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-11 18:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-10 18:39 [Patch v3 0/5] KVM: Guest page hinting nilal
2017-10-10 18:39 ` [Patch v3 1/5] KVM: Support for guest " nilal
2017-10-13 11:47 ` kbuild test robot
2017-10-13 12:44 ` kbuild test robot
2017-10-10 18:39 ` [Patch v3 2/5] KVM: Guest page hinting functionality nilal
2017-10-10 18:39 ` [Patch v3 3/5] KVM: Adding tracepoints for guest page hinting nilal
2017-10-10 18:39 ` [Patch v3 4/5] virtio: Exposes added descriptor to the other side synchronously nilal
2017-10-10 18:39 ` [Patch v3 5/5] KVM: Sending hyperlist to the host via hinting_vq nilal
2017-10-13 11:44 ` kbuild test robot
2017-10-10 18:41 ` [QEMU PATCH] kvm: Support for guest page hinting nilal
2017-10-10 18:41 ` [PATCH] " nilal
2017-10-11 18:49 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
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