From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: virtio-dev-return-7026-cohuck=redhat.com@lists.oasis-open.org Sender: List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Received: from lists.oasis-open.org (oasis-open.org [10.110.1.242]) by lists.oasis-open.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B86C8985EFA for ; Wed, 8 Apr 2020 22:55:14 +0000 (UTC) From: Alexander Duyck Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2020 15:55:10 -0700 Message-ID: <20200408225302.18764.209.stgit@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: [virtio-dev] [PATCH v18 QEMU 0/3] virtio-balloon: add support for providing free page reporting Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: david@redhat.com, mst@redhat.com Cc: virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-ID: This series provides an asynchronous means of reporting free guest pages to QEMU through virtio-balloon so that the memory associated with those pages can be dropped and reused by other processes and/or guests on the host. Using this it is possible to avoid unnecessary I/O to disk and greatly improve performance in the case of memory overcommit on the host. I originally submitted this patch series[1] back on February 11th 2020, but at that time I was focused primarily on the kernel portion of this patch set. However as of April 7th those patches are now included in Linus's kernel tree[2] and so I thought I should resubmit the QEMU side of this for inclusion so that the feature will be available in QEMU hopefully by the time the 5.7 kernel tree is released. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200211224416.29318.44077.stgit@localhost.localdomain/ [2]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b0c504f154718904ae49349147e3b7e6ae91ffdc Changes from v17: Fixed typo in patch 1 title Addressed white-space issues reported via checkpatch Added braces {} for two if statements to match expected coding style --- Alexander Duyck (3): virtio-balloon: Implement support for page poison tracking feature virtio-balloon: Add support for providing free page reports to host virtio-balloon: Provide a interface for free page reporting hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c | 70 ++++++++++++++++++++++- include/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.h | 3 + include/standard-headers/linux/virtio_balloon.h | 1 3 files changed, 69 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: virtio-dev-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: virtio-dev-help@lists.oasis-open.org