> Subject: Re: [PATCH kernel v5 0/5] Extend virtio-balloon for fast
> (de)inflating
> & fast live migration
>
> On 12/07/2016 05:35 AM, Li, Liang Z wrote:
> >> Am 30.11.2016 um 09:43 schrieb Liang Li:
> >> IOW in real examples, do we have really large consecu
Removing silly virtio-dev@ list because it's bouncing mail...
On 12/07/2016 08:21 AM, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>> Li's current patches do that. Well, maybe not pfn/length, but they do
>> take a pfn and page-order, which fits perfectly with the kernel's
>> concept of high-order pages.
>
> So we
I did something similar. Filled the balloon with 15GB for a 16GB idle
guest, by
using bitmap, the madvise count was reduced to 605. when using the
PFNs, the madvise count
was 3932160. It means there are quite a lot consecutive bits in the
bitmap.
I didn't test for a guest with heavy memory
On 12/07/2016 07:42 AM, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> Am 07.12.2016 um 14:35 schrieb Li, Liang Z:
>>> Am 30.11.2016 um 09:43 schrieb Liang Li:
This patch set contains two parts of changes to the virtio-balloon.
One is the change for speeding up the inflating & deflating process,
Am 07.12.2016 um 14:35 schrieb Li, Liang Z:
Am 30.11.2016 um 09:43 schrieb Liang Li:
This patch set contains two parts of changes to the virtio-balloon.
One is the change for speeding up the inflating & deflating process,
the main idea of this optimization is to use bitmap to send the page
On 12/07/2016 05:35 AM, Li, Liang Z wrote:
>> Am 30.11.2016 um 09:43 schrieb Liang Li:
>> IOW in real examples, do we have really large consecutive areas or are all
>> pages just completely distributed over our memory?
>
> The buddy system of Linux kernel memory management shows there should
> be
> Am 30.11.2016 um 09:43 schrieb Liang Li:
> > This patch set contains two parts of changes to the virtio-balloon.
> >
> > One is the change for speeding up the inflating & deflating process,
> > the main idea of this optimization is to use bitmap to send the page
> > information to host instead
Am 30.11.2016 um 09:43 schrieb Liang Li:
This patch set contains two parts of changes to the virtio-balloon.
One is the change for speeding up the inflating & deflating process,
the main idea of this optimization is to use bitmap to send the page
information to host instead of the PFNs, to
