On Friday, June 9, 2017 6:42 PM, Wang, Wei W wrote: > To: [email protected]; [email protected]; qemu- > [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected]; Hansen, Dave <[email protected]>; > [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected]; Wang, Wei W <[email protected]>; > [email protected] > Subject: [PATCH v11 0/6] Virtio-balloon Enhancement > > This patch series enhances the existing virtio-balloon with the following new > features: > 1) fast ballooning: transfer ballooned pages between the guest and host in > chunks, instead of one by one; and > 2) cmdq: a new virtqueue to send commands between the device and driver. > Currently, it supports commands to report memory stats (replace the old statq > mechanism) and report guest unused pages.
v10->v11 changes: 1) virtio_balloon: use vring_desc to describe a chunk; 2) virtio_ring: support to add an indirect desc table to virtqueue; 3) virtio_balloon: use cmdq to report guest memory statistics. > > Liang Li (1): > virtio-balloon: deflate via a page list > > Wei Wang (5): > virtio-balloon: coding format cleanup > virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_CHUNKS > mm: function to offer a page block on the free list > mm: export symbol of next_zone and first_online_pgdat > virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_CMD_VQ > > drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 781 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- > -- > drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c | 120 +++++- > include/linux/mm.h | 5 + > include/linux/virtio.h | 7 + > include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h | 14 + > include/uapi/linux/virtio_ring.h | 3 + > mm/mmzone.c | 2 + > mm/page_alloc.c | 91 +++++ > 8 files changed, 950 insertions(+), 73 deletions(-) > > -- > 2.7.4
