** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Yakkety)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Joseph Salisbury (jsalisbury)
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Xenial)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Joseph Salisbury (jsalisbury)
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1587091
Title:
Extended statistics from balloon for proper memory management
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
Fix Committed
Status in linux source package in Xenial:
In Progress
Status in linux source package in Yakkety:
Fix Committed
Bug description:
There is QEMU/KVM and a Linux OS running inside the guest.
Inside the Linux guest a balloon consumes memory in accordance with
commands performed on the host side in QEMU and reports some statistics
through memstat structure.
For the Linux guest reported “free” value doesn’t describe the guest memory
pressure at all.
The provided patch set in Linux kernel extends the stat with available field.
The problem is addressed in mainstream Linux with the following
patchset:
commit
5057dcd0f1aaad57e07e728ba20a99e205c6b9de
Author: Igor Redko <red...@virtuozzo.com>
Date: Thu Mar 17 15:09:34 2016 -0700
virtio_balloon: export 'available' memory to balloon statistics
Add a new field, VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_AVAIL, to virtio_balloon memory
statistics protocol, corresponding to 'Available' in /proc/meminfo.
It indicates to the hypervisor how big the balloon can be inflated
without pushing the guest system to swap.
Signed-off-by: Igor Redko <red...@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <d...@openvz.org>
Reviewed-by: Roman Kagan <rka...@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
commit d02bd27bd33dd7e8d22594cd568b81be0cb584cd
Author: Igor Redko <red...@virtuozzo.com>
Date: Thu Mar 17 15:09:34 2016 -0700
mm/page_alloc.c: calculate 'available' memory in a separate function
Add a new field, VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_AVAIL, to virtio_balloon memory
statistics protocol, corresponding to 'Available' in /proc/meminfo.
It indicates to the hypervisor how big the balloon can be inflated
without pushing the guest system to swap. This metric would be very
useful in VM orchestration software to improve memory management of
different VMs under overcommit.
This patch (of 2):
Factor out calculation of the available memory counter into a separate
exportable function, in order to be able to use it in other parts of the
kernel.
In particular, it appears a relevant metric to report to the hypervisor
via virtio-balloon statistics interface (in a followup patch).
Signed-off-by: Igor Redko <red...@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <d...@openvz.org>
Reviewed-by: Roman Kagan <rka...@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
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