On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 09:23:38AM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 11/06/2016 07:37 PM, Li, Liang Z wrote:
> >> Let's say we do a 32k bitmap that can hold ~1M pages. That's 4GB of RAM.
> >> On a 1TB system, that's 256 passes through the top-level loop.
> >> The bottom-level lists have tens of thous
On 11/07/2016 09:50 PM, Li, Liang Z wrote:
> Sounds good. Should we ignore some of the order-0 pages in step 4 if the
> bitmap is full?
> Or should retry to get a complete list of order-0 pages?
I think that's a pretty reasonable thing to do.
>>> It seems the benefit we get for this feature is
> On 11/06/2016 07:37 PM, Li, Liang Z wrote:
> >> Let's say we do a 32k bitmap that can hold ~1M pages. That's 4GB of RAM.
> >> On a 1TB system, that's 256 passes through the top-level loop.
> >> The bottom-level lists have tens of thousands of pages in them, even
> >> on my laptop. Only 1/256 of
On 11/06/2016 07:37 PM, Li, Liang Z wrote:
>> Let's say we do a 32k bitmap that can hold ~1M pages. That's 4GB of RAM.
>> On a 1TB system, that's 256 passes through the top-level loop.
>> The bottom-level lists have tens of thousands of pages in them, even on my
>> laptop. Only 1/256 of these pag
> Please squish this and patch 5 together. It makes no sense to separate them.
>
OK.
> > +static void send_unused_pages_info(struct virtio_balloon *vb,
> > + unsigned long req_id)
> > +{
> > + struct scatterlist sg_in;
> > + unsigned long pfn = 0, bmap_len, pfn_lim
Please squish this and patch 5 together. It makes no sense to separate
them.
> +static void send_unused_pages_info(struct virtio_balloon *vb,
> + unsigned long req_id)
> +{
> + struct scatterlist sg_in;
> + unsigned long pfn = 0, bmap_len, pfn_limit, last_pfn,
Support the request for vm's unused page information, response with
a page bitmap. QEMU can make use of this bitmap and the dirty page
logging mechanism to skip the transportation of some of these unused
pages, this is very helpful to reduce the network traffic and speed
up the live migration proc
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