Re: Balloon pressuring page cache

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On 05.02.20 10:35, Wang, Wei W wrote:
> On Wednesday, February 5, 2020 5:23 PM, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>> So, if you run a TCG guest and use it with free page reporting, the race is
>> possible? So the correctness depends on two dirty bitmaps in the hypervisor
>> and how they interact. wow this is fragile.
>>
> 
> Not sure how TCG tracks the dirty bits. But In whatever implementation, the hypervisor should have

There is only a single bitmap for that purpose. (well, the one where KVM
syncs to)

> already dealt with the race between he current round and the previous round dirty recording.
> (the race isn't brought by this feature essentially)

It is guaranteed to work reliably without this feature as you only clear
what *has been migrated*, not what your guest thinks should not been
migrated at one point and decides differently at another point. The race
is bought forwards by this feature.


-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb





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