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Tsirkin" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Andrew Morton , David Hildenbrand , Vlastimil Babka , Brendan Jackman , Michal Hocko , Suren Baghdasaryan , Jason Wang , Andrea Arcangeli , linux-mm@kvack.org, virtualization@lists.linux.dev, Xuan Zhuo , Eugenio =?utf-8?B?UMOpcmV6?= Subject: [PATCH RFC 9/9] virtio_balloon: a hack to enable host-zeroed page optimization Message-ID: <709f6d4e2a454d44cb89c73652e7769692eedb13.1776033771.git.mst@redhat.com> References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: virtualization@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.27.0.106.g8ac3dc51b1 X-Mutt-Fcc: =sent X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-MFC-PROC-ID: uAZXjoBuYQN53fyTWEOoT9ef1cNfokHI_-HntZEUVWs_1776034271 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Add a module parameter host_zeroes_pages to opt in to the pre-zeroed page optimization. A proper virtio feature flag is needed before this can be merged. insmod virtio_balloon.ko host_zeroes_pages=1 Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-6 --- drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c index d1fbc8fe8470..5d37196daa75 100644 --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c @@ -19,6 +19,11 @@ #include #include +static bool host_zeroes_pages; +module_param(host_zeroes_pages, bool, 0644); +MODULE_PARM_DESC(host_zeroes_pages, + "Host zeroes reported pages, skip guest re-zeroing"); + /* * Balloon device works in 4K page units. So each page is pointed to by * multiple balloon pages. All memory counters in this driver are in balloon @@ -1039,6 +1044,8 @@ static int virtballoon_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev) vb->pr_dev_info.order = 5; #endif + /* TODO: needs a virtio feature flag */ + vb->pr_dev_info.host_zeroes_pages = host_zeroes_pages; err = page_reporting_register(&vb->pr_dev_info); if (err) goto out_unregister_oom; -- MST