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This implementation of a virtio balloon driver uses the page cache to "store" pages that have been released to the host. The communication (outside of target counts) is one way--the guest notifies the host when it adds a page to the page cache, allowing the host to madvise(2) with MADV_DONTNEED. Reclaim in the guest is therefore automatic and implicit (via the regular page reclaim).

This implementation of a virtio balloon driver uses the page cache to "store" pages that have been released to the host. The communication (outside of target counts) is one way--the guest notifies the host when it adds a page to the page cache, allowing the host to madvise(2) with MADV_DONTNEED. Reclaim in the guest is therefore automatic and implicit (via the regular page reclaim).

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: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> From: Hubertus Franke <frankeh@watson.ibm.com> From: Himanshu Raj <rhim@cc.gatech.edu> [patch 3/9] Guest page hinting: volatile page cache. A new page state "volatile" is introduced that is used for clean, uptodate page cache pages. The host can choose to discard volatile pages as part of its vmscan operation instead

From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> From: Hubertus Franke <frankeh@watson.ibm.com> From: Himanshu Raj <rhim@cc.gatech.edu> [patch 3/9] Guest page hinting: volatile page cache. A new page state "volatile" is introduced that is used for clean, uptodate page cache pages. The host can choose to discard volatile pages as part of its vmscan operation instead

The implementation of the current virtio-balloon is not very efficient, the time spends on different stages of inflating the balloon to 7GB of a 8GB idle guest: a. allocating pages (6.5%) b. sending PFNs to host (68.3%) c. address translation (6.1%) d. madvise (19%) It takes about 4126ms for the inflating process to complete. Debugging shows that the bottle neck are the stage b and stage d. If

From: Liang Li <liang.z.li at intel.com> The implementation of the current virtio-balloon is not very efficient, because the pages are transferred to the host one by one. Here is the breakdown of the time in percentage spent on each step of the balloon inflating process (inflating 7GB of an 8GB idle guest). 1) allocating pages (6.5%) 2) sending PFNs to host (68.3%) 3) address translation

The implementation of the current virtio-balloon is not very efficient, the time spends on different stages of inflating the balloon to 7GB of a 8GB idle guest: a. allocating pages (6.5%) b. sending PFNs to host (68.3%) c. address translation (6.1%) d. madvise (19%) It takes about 4126ms for the inflating process to complete. Debugging shows that the bottle neck are the stage b and stage d. If

From: Liang Li <liang.z.li at intel.com> The implementation of the current virtio-balloon is not very efficient, because the ballooned pages are transferred to the host one by one. Here is the breakdown of the time in percentage spent on each step of the balloon inflating process (inflating 7GB of an 8GB idle guest). 1) allocating pages (6.5%) 2) sending PFNs to host (68.3%) 3) address

The implementation of the current virtio-balloon is not very efficient, the time spends on different stages of inflating the balloon to 7GB of a 8GB idle guest: a. allocating pages (6.5%) b. sending PFNs to host (68.3%) c. address translation (6.1%) d. madvise (19%) It takes about 4126ms for the inflating process to complete. Debugging shows that the bottle neck are the stage b and stage d. If

The implementation of the current virtio-balloon is not very efficient, the time spends on different stages of inflating the balloon to 7GB of a 8GB idle guest: a. allocating pages (6.5%) b. sending PFNs to host (68.3%) c. address translation (6.1%) d. madvise (19%) It takes about 4126ms for the inflating process to complete. Debugging shows that the bottle neck are the stage b and stage d. If

Add a new feature, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_BALLOON_CHUNKS, which enables the transfer of the ballooned (i.e. inflated/deflated) pages in chunks to the host. The implementation of the previous virtio-balloon is not very efficient, because the ballooned pages are transferred to the host one by one. Here is the breakdown of the time in percentage spent on each step of the balloon inflating process

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 09:23:33AM +0800, Liang Li wrote: > The implementation of the current virtio-balloon is not very > efficient, the time spends on different stages of inflating > the balloon to 7GB of a 8GB idle guest: > > a. allocating pages (6.5%) > b. sending PFNs to host (68.3%) > c. address translation (6.1%) > d. madvise (19%) > > It takes about 4126ms

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 09:23:33AM +0800, Liang Li wrote: > The implementation of the current virtio-balloon is not very > efficient, the time spends on different stages of inflating > the balloon to 7GB of a 8GB idle guest: > > a. allocating pages (6.5%) > b. sending PFNs to host (68.3%) > c. address translation (6.1%) > d. madvise (19%) > > It takes about 4126ms

The balloon_lock was used to synchronize the access demand to elements of struct virtio_balloon and its queue operations (please see commit e22504296d). This prevents the concurrent run of the leak_balloon and fill_balloon functions, thereby resulting in a deadlock issue on OOM: fill_balloon: take balloon_lock and wait for OOM to get some memory; oom_notify: release some inflated memory via

Add a new vq, cmdq, to handle requests between the device and driver. This patch implements two commands send from the device and handled in the driver. 1) cmd VIRTIO_BALLOON_CMDQ_REPORT_STATS: this command is used to report the guest memory statistics to the host. The stats_vq mechanism is not used when the cmdq mechanism is enabled. 2) cmd VIRTIO_BALLOON_CMDQ_REPORT_UNUSED_PAGES: this command

Add a new feature, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_CHUNKS, which enables the transfer of the ballooned (i.e. inflated/deflated) pages in chunks to the host. The implementation of the previous virtio-balloon is not very efficient, because the ballooned pages are transferred to the host one by one. Here is the breakdown of the time in percentage spent on each step of the balloon inflating process (inflating

Add a new feature, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_SG, which enables the transfer of balloon (i.e. inflated/deflated) pages using scatter-gather lists to the host. The implementation of the previous virtio-balloon is not very efficient, because the balloon pages are transferred to the host one by one. Here is the breakdown of the time in percentage spent on each step of the balloon inflating process (inflating

Add a new feature, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_SG, which enables the transfer of balloon (i.e. inflated/deflated) pages using scatter-gather lists to the host. The implementation of the previous virtio-balloon is not very efficient, because the balloon pages are transferred to the host by one array each time. Here is the breakdown of the time in percentage spent on each step of the balloon inflating process