RE: Balloon pressuring page cache

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On Wednesday, February 5, 2020 5:06 PM, David Hildenbrand wrote:

> 
> No, that does not answer my question. Because then, obviously the guest
> can't do any hinting in the last round. I think I am missing something
> important :)

No problem, probably need more details here:

QEMU has a dirty bitmap which indicates all the dirty pages from the previous round.
KVM has a dirty bitmap which records what pages are modified in this round.
When a new round starts, QEMU syncs the bitmap from KVM (this round always
sends the pages dirtied from the previous round).

> 1. Guest allocates a page and sends it to the host.
> 2. Shrinker gets active and releases that page again.
> 3. Some user in the guest allocates and modifies that page. The dirty bit is
> set in the hypervisor.

The bit will be set in KVM's bitmap, and will be synced to QEMU's bitmap when the next round starts.

> 4. The host processes the request and clears the bit in the dirty bitmap.

This clears the bit from the QEMU bitmap, and this page will not be sent in this round.

> 5. The guest is stopped and the last set of dirty pages is migrated. The
> modified page is not being migrated (because not marked dirty).

When QEMU start the last round, it first syncs the bitmap from KVM, which includes the one set in step 3.
Then the modified page gets sent.

Best,
Wei

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