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Greetings, the circus is back in town -- another version of the guest page hinting patches. The patches differ from version 6 only in the kernel version, they apply against 2.6.29. My short sniff test showed that the code is still working as expected. To recap (you can skip this if you read the boiler plate of the last version of the patches): The main benefit for guest page hinting vs. the

Greetings, the circus is back in town -- another version of the guest page hinting patches. The patches differ from version 6 only in the kernel version, they apply against 2.6.29. My short sniff test showed that the code is still working as expected. To recap (you can skip this if you read the boiler plate of the last version of the patches): The main benefit for guest page hinting vs. the

Greetings, the circus is back in town -- another version of the guest page hinting patches. The patches differ from version 6 only in the kernel version, they apply against 2.6.29. My short sniff test showed that the code is still working as expected. To recap (you can skip this if you read the boiler plate of the last version of the patches): The main benefit for guest page hinting vs. the

From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> From: Hubertus Franke <frankeh@watson.ibm.com> From: Himanshu Raj <rhim@cc.gatech.edu> [patch 1/9] Guest page hinting: unused / free pages. A very simple but already quite effective improvement in the handling of guest memory vs. host memory is to tell the host when pages are free. That allows the host to avoid the paging of

From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> From: Hubertus Franke <frankeh@watson.ibm.com> From: Himanshu Raj <rhim@cc.gatech.edu> [patch 1/9] Guest page hinting: unused / free pages. A very simple but already quite effective improvement in the handling of guest memory vs. host memory is to tell the host when pages are free. That allows the host to avoid the paging of

This patch fixes the following errors caused by 79741dd35713ff4f6fd0eafd59fa94e8a4ba922d which changed the prototypes of account_steal_time() and account_idle_time(). > CC arch/ia64/xen/time.o > arch/ia64/xen/time.c: In function 'consider_steal_time': > arch/ia64/xen/time.c:132: warning: passing argument 1 of 'account_steal_time' makes integer from pointer without

This patch fixes the following errors caused by 79741dd35713ff4f6fd0eafd59fa94e8a4ba922d which changed the prototypes of account_steal_time() and account_idle_time(). > CC arch/ia64/xen/time.o > arch/ia64/xen/time.c: In function 'consider_steal_time': > arch/ia64/xen/time.c:132: warning: passing argument 1 of 'account_steal_time' makes integer from pointer without

From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> From: Hubertus Franke <frankeh@watson.ibm.com> From: Himanshu Raj <rhim@cc.gatech.edu> [patch 8/9] Guest page hinting: discarded page list. The discarded page list is used to postpone the freeing of discarded pages. The PG_discarded is set by either __remove_from_page_cache, __delete_from_swap_cache or the discard fault handler

From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> From: Hubertus Franke <frankeh@watson.ibm.com> From: Himanshu Raj <rhim@cc.gatech.edu> [patch 8/9] Guest page hinting: discarded page list. The discarded page list is used to postpone the freeing of discarded pages. The PG_discarded is set by either __remove_from_page_cache, __delete_from_swap_cache or the discard fault handler

From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> From: Hubertus Franke <frankeh@watson.ibm.com> From: Himanshu Raj <rhim@cc.gatech.edu> [patch 5/9] Guest page hinting: mlocked pages. Add code to get mlock() working with guest page hinting. The problem with mlock is that locked pages may not be removed from page cache. That means they need to be stable. page_make_volatile needs

From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> From: Hubertus Franke <frankeh@watson.ibm.com> From: Himanshu Raj <rhim@cc.gatech.edu> [patch 5/9] Guest page hinting: mlocked pages. Add code to get mlock() working with guest page hinting. The problem with mlock is that locked pages may not be removed from page cache. That means they need to be stable. page_make_volatile needs

From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> From: Hubertus Franke <frankeh@watson.ibm.com> From: Himanshu Raj <rhim@cc.gatech.edu> [patch 4/9] Guest page hinting: volatile swap cache. The volatile page state can be used for anonymous pages as well, if they have been added to the swap cache and the swap write is finished. The tricky bit is in free_swap_and_cache. The call

From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> From: Hubertus Franke <frankeh@watson.ibm.com> From: Himanshu Raj <rhim@cc.gatech.edu> [patch 4/9] Guest page hinting: volatile swap cache. The volatile page state can be used for anonymous pages as well, if they have been added to the swap cache and the swap write is finished. The tricky bit is in free_swap_and_cache. The call

From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger at de.ibm.com> From: Carsten Otte <cotte at de.ibm.com> This patch adds functionality to detect if the kernel runs under the KVM hypervisor. A macro MACHINE_IS_KVM is exported for device drivers. This allows drivers to skip device detection if the systems runs non-virtualized. We also define a preferred console to avoid having the ttyS0, which

From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger at de.ibm.com> From: Carsten Otte <cotte at de.ibm.com> This patch adds functionality to detect if the kernel runs under the KVM hypervisor. A macro MACHINE_IS_KVM is exported for device drivers. This allows drivers to skip device detection if the systems runs non-virtualized. We also define a preferred console to avoid having the ttyS0, which

On Tue, 5 Jan 2016 11:30:19 +0200 "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst at redhat.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 09:13:19AM +0100, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Jan 2016 22:18:58 +0200 > > "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst at redhat.com> wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 02:45:25PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > >

On Tue, 5 Jan 2016 11:30:19 +0200 "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst at redhat.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 09:13:19AM +0100, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Jan 2016 22:18:58 +0200 > > "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst at redhat.com> wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 02:45:25PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > >

From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> From: Hubertus Franke <frankeh@watson.ibm.com> From: Himanshu Raj <rhim@cc.gatech.edu> [patch 2/9] Guest page hinting: unused / free pages on s390. s390 uses the milli-coded ESSA instruction to set the page state. The page state is formed by four guest page states called block usage states and three host page states called block

From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> From: Hubertus Franke <frankeh@watson.ibm.com> From: Himanshu Raj <rhim@cc.gatech.edu> [patch 2/9] Guest page hinting: unused / free pages on s390. s390 uses the milli-coded ESSA instruction to set the page state. The page state is formed by four guest page states called block usage states and three host page states called block

Greetings, after Carsten pitched CMM2 on the kvm mini summit here is a repost of version 5 of the guest page hinting patches. The code is still the same but has been adapted to the latest git level. -- blue skies, Martin. "Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.