On 10/25/2018 08:58 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 09:32:16AM +0800, Wei Wang wrote:
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 host. It can be used to accelerate virtual machine (VM) live
migration. Here is an introduction of this usage:
Live migration needs to transfer the VM's memory from the source machine
to the destination round by round. For the 1st round, all the VM's memory
is transferred. From the 2nd round, only the pieces of memory that were
written by the guest (after the 1st round) are transferred. One method
that is popularly used by the hypervisor to track which part of memory is
written is to have the hypervisor write-protect all the guest memory.
This feature enables the optimization by skipping the transfer of guest
free pages during VM live migration. It is not concerned that the memory
pages are used after they are given to the hypervisor as a hint of the
free pages, because they will be tracked by the hypervisor and transferred
in the subsequent round if they are used and written.
OK so it will be in linux-next. Now can I trouble you for a virtio spec
patch with the description please?
No problem, I'll start to patch the spec. Thanks!
Best,
Wei
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