From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755318AbbFLSnf (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jun 2015 14:43:35 -0400 Received: from smtp-outbound-2.vmware.com ([208.91.2.13]:60029 "EHLO smtp-outbound-2.vmware.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750698AbbFLSnd (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jun 2015 14:43:33 -0400 From: "Philip P. Moltmann" To: dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com Cc: "Philip P. Moltmann" , gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xdeguillard@vmware.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, pv-drivers@vmware.com Subject: [PATCH v3 0/9] Third revision of the performance improvment patch to the VMWare balloon driver Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 11:43:21 -0700 Message-Id: <1434134610-2831-1-git-send-email-moltmann@vmware.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.4.3 In-Reply-To: <20150612161513.GA23859@dtor-pixel> References: <20150612161513.GA23859@dtor-pixel> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is the third revision fo the path to the VMWare balloon driver. The original was send to linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org on 4/14/15 10.29 am PST. Please refer to the original change for an overview. v1: - Initial implementation v2 - Address suggestions by Dmitry Totoknov - Use UINT_MAX as "infitite" rate instead of special casing -1 v3: - Change commit comment for step 6 to better explain what impact ballooning has on the VM performance. Thanks Philip Philip P. Moltmann (5): VMware balloon: Show capabilities of balloon and resulting capabilities in the debug-fs node. VMware balloon: Do not limit the amount of frees and allocations in non-sleep mode. VMware balloon: Support 2m page ballooning. VMware balloon: Treat init like reset VMware balloon: Enable notification via VMCI Xavier Deguillard (4): VMware balloon: partially inline vmballoon_reserve_page. VMware balloon: Add support for balloon capabilities. VMware balloon: add batching to the vmw_balloon. VMware balloon: Update balloon target on each lock/unlock. drivers/misc/Kconfig | 2 +- drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c | 954 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- 2 files changed, 717 insertions(+), 239 deletions(-) -- 2.4.3