Please squish this and patch 5 together. It makes no sense to separate
them.
> +static void send_unused_pages_info(struct virtio_balloon *vb,
> + unsigned long req_id)
> +{
> + struct scatterlist sg_in;
> + unsigned long pfn = 0, bmap_len, pfn_limit, last_pfn, nr_pfn;
> + struct virtqueue *vq = vb->req_vq;
> + struct virtio_balloon_resp_hdr *hdr = vb->resp_hdr;
> + int ret = 1, used_nr_bmap = 0, i;
> +
> + if (virtio_has_feature(vb->vdev, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_BITMAP) &&
> + vb->nr_page_bmap == 1)
> + extend_page_bitmap(vb);
> +
> + pfn_limit = PFNS_PER_BMAP * vb->nr_page_bmap;
> + mutex_lock(&vb->balloon_lock);
> + last_pfn = get_max_pfn();
> +
> + while (ret) {
> + clear_page_bitmap(vb);
> + ret = get_unused_pages(pfn, pfn + pfn_limit, vb->page_bitmap,
> + PFNS_PER_BMAP, vb->nr_page_bmap);
This changed the underlying data structure without changing the way that
the structure is populated.
This algorithm picks a "PFNS_PER_BMAP * vb->nr_page_bmap"-sized set of
pfns, allocates a bitmap for them, the loops through all zones looking
for pages in any free list that are in that range.
Unpacking all the indirection, it looks like this:
for (pfn = 0; pfn < get_max_pfn(); pfn += BITMAP_SIZE_IN_PFNS)
for_each_populated_zone(zone)
for_each_migratetype_order(order, t)
list_for_each(..., &zone->free_area[order])...
Let's say we do a 32k bitmap that can hold ~1M pages. That's 4GB of
RAM. On a 1TB system, that's 256 passes through the top-level loop.
The bottom-level lists have tens of thousands of pages in them, even on
my laptop. Only 1/256 of these pages will get consumed in a given pass.
That's an awfully inefficient way of doing it. This patch essentially
changed the data structure without changing the algorithm to populate it.
Please change the *algorithm* to use the new data structure efficiently.
Such a change would only do a single pass through each freelist, and
would choose whether to use the extent-based (pfn -> range) or
bitmap-based approach based on the contents of the free lists.
You should not be using get_max_pfn(). Any patch set that continues to
use it is not likely to be using a proper algorithm.
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