linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH v6 kernel 0/5] Extend virtio-balloon for fast (de)inflating & fast live migration

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Date:   Tue, 10 Jan 2017 06:43:23 +0000
From:   "Li, Liang Z" <liang.z.li@...el.com>
To:     "kvm@...r.kernel.org" <kvm@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     "virtio-dev@...ts.oasis-open.org" <virtio-dev@...ts.oasis-open.org>,
        "qemu-devel@...gnu.org" <qemu-devel@...gnu.org>,
        "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
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        "amit.shah@...hat.com" <amit.shah@...hat.com>,
        "Hansen, Dave" <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
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Subject: RE: [PATCH v6 kernel 0/5] Extend virtio-balloon for fast
 (de)inflating & fast live migration

Hi guys,

Could you help to review this patch set?

Thanks!
Liang

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Li, Liang Z
> Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2016 2:52 PM
> To: kvm@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: virtio-dev@...ts.oasis-open.org; qemu-devel@...gnu.org; linux-
> mm@...ck.org; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; virtualization@...ts.linux-
> foundation.org; amit.shah@...hat.com; Hansen, Dave;
> cornelia.huck@...ibm.com; pbonzini@...hat.com; mst@...hat.com;
> david@...hat.com; aarcange@...hat.com; dgilbert@...hat.com;
> quintela@...hat.com; Li, Liang Z
> Subject: [PATCH v6 kernel 0/5] Extend virtio-balloon for fast (de)inflating &
> fast live migration
> 
> This patch set contains two parts of changes to the virtio-balloon.
> 
> One is the change for speeding up the inflating & deflating process, the main
> idea of this optimization is to use {pfn|length} to present the page
> information instead of the PFNs, to reduce the overhead of virtio data
> transmission, address translation and madvise(). This can help to improve the
> performance by about 85%.
> 
> Another change is for speeding up live migration. By skipping process guest's
> unused pages in the first round of data copy, to reduce needless data
> processing, this can help to save quite a lot of CPU cycles and network
> bandwidth. We put guest's unused page information in a {pfn|length} array
> and send it to host with the virt queue of virtio-balloon. For an idle guest with
> 8GB RAM, this can help to shorten the total live migration time from 2Sec to
> about 500ms in 10Gbps network environment. For an guest with quite a lot
> of page cache and with little unused pages, it's possible to let the guest drop
> it's page cache before live migration, this case can benefit from this new
> feature too.
> 
> Changes from v5 to v6:
>     * Drop the bitmap from the virtio ABI, use {pfn|length} only.
>     * Enhance the API to get the unused page information from mm.
> 
> Changes from v4 to v5:
>     * Drop the code to get the max_pfn, use another way instead.
>     * Simplify the API to get the unused page information from mm.
> 
> Changes from v3 to v4:
>     * Use the new scheme suggested by Dave Hansen to encode the bitmap.
>     * Add code which is missed in v3 to handle migrate page.
>     * Free the memory for bitmap intime once the operation is done.
>     * Address some of the comments in v3.
> 
> Changes from v2 to v3:
>     * Change the name of 'free page' to 'unused page'.
>     * Use the scatter & gather bitmap instead of a 1MB page bitmap.
>     * Fix overwriting the page bitmap after kicking.
>     * Some of MST's comments for v2.
> 
> Changes from v1 to v2:
>     * Abandon the patch for dropping page cache.
>     * Put some structures to uapi head file.
>     * Use a new way to determine the page bitmap size.
>     * Use a unified way to send the free page information with the bitmap
>     * Address the issues referred in MST's comments
> 
> Liang Li (5):
>   virtio-balloon: rework deflate to add page to a list
>   virtio-balloon: define new feature bit and head struct
>   virtio-balloon: speed up inflate/deflate process
>   virtio-balloon: define flags and head for host request vq
>   virtio-balloon: tell host vm's unused page info
> 
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c     | 510
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>  include/linux/mm.h                  |   3 +
>  include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h |  34 +++
>  mm/page_alloc.c                     | 120 +++++++++
>  4 files changed, 621 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)
> 
> --
> 1.9.1