similar to: [PATCH v5 0/2] virtio_balloon: Conversion to workqueue + parallel stats

It has been long since I have sent v3 of the balloon conversion from a kthread to a workqueue. I have gained some more experience with the APIs in the meantime. I hope that you would like the outcome. I have added one more patch that fixes a separate problem with restoring the balloon after the system freeze. I have found this when testing the conversion. Changes against v3: + rebased on

It has been long since I have sent v3 of the balloon conversion from a kthread to a workqueue. I have gained some more experience with the APIs in the meantime. I hope that you would like the outcome. I have added one more patch that fixes a separate problem with restoring the balloon after the system freeze. I have found this when testing the conversion. Changes against v3: + rebased on

Workqueues have clean and rich API for all basic operations. The code is usually easier and better readable. It can be easily tuned for the given purpose. In many cases, it allows to avoid an extra kernel thread. It helps to stop the growing number of them. Also there will be less thread-specific hacks all over the kernel code. It forces making the task selfcontained. There is no longer an

Workqueues have clean and rich API for all basic operations. The code is usually easier and better readable. It can be easily tuned for the given purpose. In many cases, it allows to avoid an extra kernel thread. It helps to stop the growing number of them. Also there will be less thread-specific hacks all over the kernel code. It forces making the task selfcontained. There is no longer an

Since virtio-ccw doesn't work with accessing to the config registers inside an interrupt context, this patch series avoids that issue by moving the config register accesses to the related workqueue contexts. Wei Wang (2): virtio-balloon: tweak config_changed implementation virtio-balloon: improve update_balloon_size_func drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 59

Since virtio-ccw doesn't work with accessing to the config space inside an interrupt context, this patch series avoids that issue by moving the config register accesses to the related workqueue contexts. v1->v2 ChangeLog: - add config_read_bitmap to indicate to the workqueue callbacks about the necessity of reading the related config fields. Wei Wang (2): virtio-balloon: tweak

Tetsuo Handa wrote: > 20171016-deflate.log.xz continued printing "puff" messages without any OOM > killer messages, for fill_balloon() always inflates faster than leak_balloon() > deflates. > > Since the OOM killer cannot be invoked unless leak_balloon() completely > deflates faster than fill_balloon() inflates, the guest remained unusable > (e.g. unable to login

Tetsuo Handa wrote: > 20171016-deflate.log.xz continued printing "puff" messages without any OOM > killer messages, for fill_balloon() always inflates faster than leak_balloon() > deflates. > > Since the OOM killer cannot be invoked unless leak_balloon() completely > deflates faster than fill_balloon() inflates, the guest remained unusable > (e.g. unable to login

Since virtio-ccw doesn't work with accessing to the config space inside an interrupt context, this patch series avoids that issue by moving the config register accesses to the related workqueue contexts. v2->v3 ChangeLog: - rename cmd_id_received to cmd_id_received_cache, and have call sites read the latest value via virtio_balloon_cmd_id_received. (Still kept Cornelia and

> > Negotiation of the VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_VQ feature indicates the > support of reporting hints of guest free pages to host via virtio-balloon. > > Host requests the guest to report free pages by sending a new cmd > id to the guest via the free_page_report_cmd_id configuration register. > > When the guest starts to report, the first element added to the free page

> > Negotiation of the VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_VQ feature indicates the > support of reporting hints of guest free pages to host via virtio-balloon. > > Host requests the guest to report free pages by sending a new cmd > id to the guest via the free_page_report_cmd_id configuration register. > > When the guest starts to report, the first element added to the free page

This patch series is separated from the previous "Virtio-balloon Enhancement" series. The new feature, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_VQ, implemented by this series enables the virtio-balloon driver to report hints of guest free pages to the host. It can be used to accelerate live migration of VMs. Here is an introduction of this usage: Live migration needs to transfer the VM's memory

On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 08:05:10PM +0800, Wei Wang wrote: > Negotiation of the VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT feature indicates the > support of reporting hints of guest free pages to host via virtio-balloon. > > Host requests the guest to report free page hints by sending a new cmd id > to the guest via the free_page_report_cmd_id configuration register. > > As the first

On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 08:05:10PM +0800, Wei Wang wrote: > Negotiation of the VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT feature indicates the > support of reporting hints of guest free pages to host via virtio-balloon. > > Host requests the guest to report free page hints by sending a new cmd id > to the guest via the free_page_report_cmd_id configuration register. > > As the first

This patch series is separated from the previous "Virtio-balloon Enhancement" series. The new feature, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_VQ, implemented by this series enables the virtio-balloon driver to report hints of guest free pages to the host. It can be used to accelerate live migration of VMs. Here is an introduction of this usage: Live migration needs to transfer the VM's memory

This patch series is separated from the previous "Virtio-balloon Enhancement" series. The new feature, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_VQ, implemented by this series enables the virtio-balloon driver to report hints of guest free pages to the host. It can be used to accelerate live migration of VMs. Here is an introduction of this usage: Live migration needs to transfer the VM's memory

This patch series is separated from the previous "Virtio-balloon Enhancement" series. The new feature, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT, implemented by this series enables the virtio-balloon driver to report hints of guest free pages to the host. It can be used to accelerate live migration of VMs. Here is an introduction of this usage: Live migration needs to transfer the VM's

This patch series is separated from the previous "Virtio-balloon Enhancement" series. The new feature, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT, implemented by this series enables the virtio-balloon driver to report hints of guest free pages to the host. It can be used to accelerate live migration of VMs. Here is an introduction of this usage: Live migration needs to transfer the VM's

Tetsuo Handa wrote: > Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > > > > > > The proper fix isn't that hard - just avoid allocations under lock. > > > > > > > > Patch posted, pls take a look. > > > > > > Your patch allocates pages in order to inflate the balloon, but > > > your patch will allow leak_balloon() to deflate the

Tetsuo Handa wrote: > Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > > > > > > The proper fix isn't that hard - just avoid allocations under lock. > > > > > > > > Patch posted, pls take a look. > > > > > > Your patch allocates pages in order to inflate the balloon, but > > > your patch will allow leak_balloon() to deflate the