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

2019-03-05 Thread Wei Wang
On 03/05/2019 10:50 PM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: * Wei Wang (wei.w.w...@intel.com) 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

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

2019-03-05 Thread Dr. David Alan Gilbert
* Wei Wang (wei.w.w...@intel.com) 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

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

2019-02-21 Thread Wei Wang
On 02/21/2019 06:18 PM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: * Wei Wang (wei.w.w...@intel.com) wrote: On 02/20/2019 09:12 PM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: * Wang, Wei W (wei.w.w...@intel.com) wrote: On Friday, December 14, 2018 7:17 PM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: On 12/14/2018 05:56 PM, Dr.

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

2019-02-21 Thread Dr. David Alan Gilbert
* Wei Wang (wei.w.w...@intel.com) wrote: > On 02/20/2019 09:12 PM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > > * Wang, Wei W (wei.w.w...@intel.com) wrote: > > > On Friday, December 14, 2018 7:17 PM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > > > > > On 12/14/2018 05:56 PM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > > > > > > *

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

2019-02-20 Thread Wei Wang
On 02/20/2019 09:12 PM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: * Wang, Wei W (wei.w.w...@intel.com) wrote: On Friday, December 14, 2018 7:17 PM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: On 12/14/2018 05:56 PM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: * Wei Wang (wei.w.w...@intel.com) wrote: On 12/13/2018 11:45 PM, Dr.

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

2019-02-20 Thread Dr. David Alan Gilbert
* Wang, Wei W (wei.w.w...@intel.com) wrote: > On Friday, December 14, 2018 7:17 PM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > > > On 12/14/2018 05:56 PM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > > > > * Wei Wang (wei.w.w...@intel.com) wrote: > > > > > On 12/13/2018 11:45 PM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > > > > > >

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

2019-02-19 Thread Wang, Wei W
On Friday, December 14, 2018 7:17 PM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > > On 12/14/2018 05:56 PM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > > > * Wei Wang (wei.w.w...@intel.com) wrote: > > > > On 12/13/2018 11:45 PM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > > > > > * Wei Wang (wei.w.w...@intel.com) wrote: > > > > > >

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

2018-12-14 Thread Dr. David Alan Gilbert
* Wei Wang (wei.w.w...@intel.com) wrote: > On 12/14/2018 05:56 PM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > > * Wei Wang (wei.w.w...@intel.com) wrote: > > > On 12/13/2018 11:45 PM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > > > > * Wei Wang (wei.w.w...@intel.com) wrote: > > > > > The new feature enables the

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

2018-12-14 Thread Wei Wang
On 12/14/2018 05:56 PM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: * Wei Wang (wei.w.w...@intel.com) wrote: On 12/13/2018 11:45 PM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: * Wei Wang (wei.w.w...@intel.com) wrote: The new feature enables the virtio-balloon device to receive hints of guest free pages from the free

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

2018-12-14 Thread Dr. David Alan Gilbert
* Wei Wang (wei.w.w...@intel.com) wrote: > On 12/13/2018 11:45 PM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > > * Wei Wang (wei.w.w...@intel.com) wrote: > > > The new feature enables the virtio-balloon device to receive hints of > > > guest free pages from the free page vq. > > > > > > A notifier is

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

2018-12-13 Thread Wei Wang
On 12/13/2018 11:45 PM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: * Wei Wang (wei.w.w...@intel.com) 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

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

2018-12-13 Thread Dr. David Alan Gilbert
* Wei Wang (wei.w.w...@intel.com) 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

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

2018-12-11 Thread Wei Wang
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