* Re: [PATCH v2 kernel 0/7] Extend virtio-balloon for fast (de)inflating & fast live migration
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@ 2016-07-26 18:55 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-07-27 1:32 ` [virtio-dev] " Li, Liang Z
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From: Michael S. Tsirkin @ 2016-07-26 18:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Liang Li
Cc: linux-kernel, virtualization, kvm, qemu-devel, virtio-dev,
dgilbert, quintela, linux-mm
On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 06:32:13PM +0800, Liang Li wrote:
> This patch set contains two parts of changes to the virtio-balloon.
>
> One is the change for speeding up the inflating & deflating process,
> the main idea of this optimization is to use bitmap to send the page
> information to host instead of the PFNs, to reduce the overhead of
> virtio data transmission, address translation and madvise(). This can
> help to improve the performance by about 85%.
>
> Another change is for speeding up live migration. By skipping process
> guest's free pages in the first round of data copy, to reduce needless
> data processing, this can help to save quite a lot of CPU cycles and
> network bandwidth. We put guest's free page information in bitmap and
> send it to host with the virt queue of virtio-balloon. For an idle 8GB
> guest, this can help to shorten the total live migration time from 2Sec
> to about 500ms in the 10Gbps network environment.
So I'm fine with this patchset, but I noticed it was not
yet reviewed by MM people. And that is not surprising since
you did not copy memory management mailing list on it.
I added linux-mm@kvack.org Cc on this mail but this might not be enough.
Please repost (e.g. [PATCH v2 repost]) copying the relevant mailing list
so we can get some reviews.
>
> Changes from v1 to v2:
> * Abandon the patch for dropping page cache.
> * Put some structures to uapi head file.
> * Use a new way to determine the page bitmap size.
> * Use a unified way to send the free page information with the bitmap
> * Address the issues referred in MST's comments
>
> Liang Li (7):
> virtio-balloon: rework deflate to add page to a list
> virtio-balloon: define new feature bit and page bitmap head
> mm: add a function to get the max pfn
> virtio-balloon: speed up inflate/deflate process
> virtio-balloon: define feature bit and head for misc virt queue
> mm: add the related functions to get free page info
> virtio-balloon: tell host vm's free page info
>
> drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 306 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h | 41 +++++
> mm/page_alloc.c | 52 ++++++
> 3 files changed, 359 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 1.8.3.1
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