The patch titled VMware balloon: stop locking pages when hypervisor tells us enough has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was vmware-balloon-stop-locking-pages-when-hypervisor-tells-us-enough.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: VMware balloon: stop locking pages when hypervisor tells us enough From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@xxxxxxxxxx> When hypervisor decides to decrease target balloon size while the balloon driver tries to lock pages hypervisor may respond with VMW_BALLOON_PPN_NOTNEEDED. Use this data and immediately stop reserving pages and wait for the next update cycle to fetch new target instead of continuing trying to lock pages until size of refused list grows above VMW_BALLOON_MAX_REFUSED (16) pages. As a result the driver stops bothering the hypervisor with its attempts to lock more pages that are not needed anymore. Most likely next order from hypervisor will be to reduce ballon size anyway. It is a small optimization. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c | 13 ++++++++----- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c~vmware-balloon-stop-locking-pages-when-hypervisor-tells-us-enough drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c --- a/drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c~vmware-balloon-stop-locking-pages-when-hypervisor-tells-us-enough +++ a/drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ MODULE_AUTHOR("VMware, Inc."); MODULE_DESCRIPTION("VMware Memory Control (Balloon) Driver"); -MODULE_VERSION("1.2.1.1-k"); +MODULE_VERSION("1.2.1.2-k"); MODULE_ALIAS("dmi:*:svnVMware*:*"); MODULE_ALIAS("vmware_vmmemctl"); MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); @@ -315,7 +315,8 @@ static bool vmballoon_send_get_target(st * fear that guest will need it. Host may reject some pages, we need to * check the return value and maybe submit a different page. */ -static bool vmballoon_send_lock_page(struct vmballoon *b, unsigned long pfn) +static bool vmballoon_send_lock_page(struct vmballoon *b, unsigned long pfn, + unsigned int *hv_status) { unsigned long status, dummy; u32 pfn32; @@ -326,7 +327,7 @@ static bool vmballoon_send_lock_page(str STATS_INC(b->stats.lock); - status = VMWARE_BALLOON_CMD(LOCK, pfn, dummy); + *hv_status = status = VMWARE_BALLOON_CMD(LOCK, pfn, dummy); if (vmballoon_check_status(b, status)) return true; @@ -410,6 +411,7 @@ static int vmballoon_reserve_page(struct { struct page *page; gfp_t flags; + unsigned int hv_status; bool locked = false; do { @@ -429,11 +431,12 @@ static int vmballoon_reserve_page(struct } /* inform monitor */ - locked = vmballoon_send_lock_page(b, page_to_pfn(page)); + locked = vmballoon_send_lock_page(b, page_to_pfn(page), &hv_status); if (!locked) { STATS_INC(b->stats.refused_alloc); - if (b->reset_required) { + if (hv_status == VMW_BALLOON_ERROR_RESET || + hv_status == VMW_BALLOON_ERROR_PPN_NOTNEEDED) { __free_page(page); return -EIO; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from dtor@xxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html