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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v11 7/7] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_P


From: Wei Wang
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v11 7/7] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2018 14:39:19 +0800
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On 12/13/2018 11:45 PM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
* Wei Wang (address@hidden) wrote:
The new feature enables the virtio-balloon device to receive hints of
guest free pages from the free page vq.

A notifier is registered to the migration precopy notifier chain. The
notifier calls free_page_start after the migration thread syncs the dirty
bitmap, so that the free page optimization starts to clear bits of free
pages from the bitmap. It calls the free_page_stop before the migration
thread syncs the bitmap, which is the end of the current round of ram
save. The free_page_stop is also called to stop the optimization in the
case when there is an error occurred in the process of ram saving.

Note: balloon will report pages which were free at the time of this call.
As the reporting happens asynchronously, dirty bit logging must be
enabled before this free_page_start call is made. Guest reporting must be
disabled before the migration dirty bitmap is synchronized.

Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <address@hidden>
CC: Michael S. Tsirkin <address@hidden>
CC: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <address@hidden>
CC: Juan Quintela <address@hidden>
CC: Peter Xu <address@hidden>
I think I'm OK for this from the migration side, I'd appreciate
someone checking the virtio and aio bits.

I'm not too sure how it gets switched on and off - i.e. if we get a nice
new qemu on a new kernel, what happens when I try and migrate to the
same qemu on an older kernel without these hints?


This feature doesn't rely on the host kernel. Those hints are reported from the guest kernel.
So migration across different hosts wouldn't affect the use of this feature.
Please correct me if I didn't get your point.

Best,
Wei



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