Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] kvm: Report unused guest pages to host

2019-02-09 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 10:15:33AM -0800, Alexander Duyck wrote: > This patch set provides a mechanism by which guests can notify the host of > pages that are not currently in use. Using this data a KVM host can more > easily balance memory workloads between guests and improve overall system > perf

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] kvm: Report unused guest pages to host

2019-02-07 Thread Alexander Duyck
On Thu, 2019-02-07 at 09:48 -0500, Nitesh Narayan Lal wrote: > On 2/4/19 1:15 PM, Alexander Duyck wrote: > > This patch set provides a mechanism by which guests can notify the host of > > pages that are not currently in use. Using this data a KVM host can more > > easily balance memory workloads be

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] kvm: Report unused guest pages to host

2019-02-07 Thread Nitesh Narayan Lal
On 2/4/19 1:15 PM, Alexander Duyck wrote: > This patch set provides a mechanism by which guests can notify the host of > pages that are not currently in use. Using this data a KVM host can more > easily balance memory workloads between guests and improve overall system > performance by avoiding un

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] kvm: Report unused guest pages to host

2019-02-05 Thread Alexander Duyck
On Tue, 2019-02-05 at 12:25 -0500, Nitesh Narayan Lal wrote: > On 2/4/19 1:15 PM, Alexander Duyck wrote: > > This patch set provides a mechanism by which guests can notify the host of > > pages that are not currently in use. Using this data a KVM host can more > > easily balance memory workloads be

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] kvm: Report unused guest pages to host

2019-02-05 Thread Nitesh Narayan Lal
On 2/4/19 1:15 PM, Alexander Duyck wrote: > This patch set provides a mechanism by which guests can notify the host of > pages that are not currently in use. Using this data a KVM host can more > easily balance memory workloads between guests and improve overall system > performance by avoiding un

[RFC PATCH 0/4] kvm: Report unused guest pages to host

2019-02-04 Thread Alexander Duyck
This patch set provides a mechanism by which guests can notify the host of pages that are not currently in use. Using this data a KVM host can more easily balance memory workloads between guests and improve overall system performance by avoiding unnecessary writing of unused pages to swap. In orde