From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: "Li, Liang Z" <liang.z.li@intel.com>,
"mst@redhat.com" <mst@redhat.com>,
"viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk" <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
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Cc: "linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH kernel 1/2] mm: add the related functions to build the free page bitmap
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 11:26:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1461079592.3200.9.camel@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F2CBF3009FA73547804AE4C663CAB28E04182594@shsmsx102.ccr.corp.intel.com>
On Tue, 2016-04-19 at 15:02 +0000, Li, Liang Z wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 2016-04-19 at 22:34 +0800, Liang Li wrote:
> > >
> > > The free page bitmap will be sent to QEMU through virtio
> > > interface and
> > > used for live migration optimization.
> > > Drop the cache before building the free page bitmap can get more
> > > free
> > > pages. Whether dropping the cache is decided by user.
> > >
> > How do you prevent the guest from using those recently-freed pages
> > for
> > something else, between when you build the bitmap and the live
> > migration
> > completes?
> Because the dirty page logging is enabled before building the bitmap,
> there is no need
> to prevent the guest from using the recently-freed pages ...
Fair enough.
It would be good to have that mentioned in the
changelog.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-19 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-19 14:34 [PATCH kernel 0/2] speed up live migration by skipping free pages Liang Li
2016-04-19 14:34 ` [PATCH kernel 1/2] mm: add the related functions to build the free page bitmap Liang Li
2016-04-19 14:54 ` Rik van Riel
2016-04-19 15:02 ` Li, Liang Z
2016-04-19 15:26 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2016-04-20 0:57 ` Li, Liang Z
2016-04-19 16:15 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-04-20 1:41 ` Li, Liang Z
2016-04-21 13:48 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-04-22 1:36 ` Li, Liang Z
2016-04-22 9:48 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2016-04-22 13:58 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-04-25 3:11 ` Li, Liang Z
2016-04-25 10:43 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-04-26 3:21 ` Li, Liang Z
2016-04-19 14:56 ` kbuild test robot
2016-04-19 16:01 ` kbuild test robot
2016-04-19 16:14 ` kbuild test robot
2016-04-19 14:34 ` [PATCH kernel 2/2] virtio-balloon: extend balloon driver to support the new feature Liang Li
2016-04-19 16:18 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-04-25 6:06 ` [PATCH kernel 0/2] speed up live migration by skipping free pages Amit Shah
2016-04-25 11:04 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-04-25 12:08 ` Amit Shah
2016-04-25 12:51 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-04-25 13:17 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
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