linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] xenbus/backend: Add memory pressure handler callback

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Date:   Tue, 10 Dec 2019 07:23:17 +0100
From:   Jürgen Groß <jgross@...e.com>
To:     SeongJae Park <sjpark@...zon.com>
Cc:     axboe@...nel.dk, konrad.wilk@...cle.com,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        pdurrant@...zon.com, roger.pau@...rix.com, sj38.park@...il.com,
        xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org, SeongJae Park <sjpark@...zon.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] xenbus/backend: Add memory pressure handler
 callback

On 09.12.19 20:43, SeongJae Park wrote:
> From: SeongJae Park <sjpark@...zon.de>
> 
> Granting pages consumes backend system memory.  In systems configured
> with insufficient spare memory for those pages, it can cause a memory
> pressure situation.  However, finding the optimal amount of the spare
> memory is challenging for large systems having dynamic resource
> utilization patterns.  Also, such a static configuration might lacks a
> flexibility.
> 
> To mitigate such problems, this commit adds a memory reclaim callback to
> 'xenbus_driver'.  Using this facility, 'xenbus' would be able to monitor
> a memory pressure and request specific domains of specific backend
> drivers which causing the given pressure to voluntarily release its
> memory.
> 
> That said, this commit simply requests every callback registered driver
> to release its memory for every domain, rather than issueing the
> requests to the drivers and domain in charge.  Such things would be a
> future work.  Also, this commit focuses on memory only.  However, it
> would be ablt to be extended for general resources.
> 
> Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@...zon.de>
> ---
>   drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe_backend.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>   include/xen/xenbus.h                      |  1 +
>   2 files changed, 32 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe_backend.c b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe_backend.c
> index b0bed4faf44c..cd5fd1cd8de3 100644
> --- a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe_backend.c
> +++ b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe_backend.c
> @@ -248,6 +248,34 @@ static int backend_probe_and_watch(struct notifier_block *notifier,
>   	return NOTIFY_DONE;
>   }
>   
> +static int xenbus_backend_reclaim(struct device *dev, void *data)
> +{
> +	struct xenbus_driver *drv;
> +	if (!dev->driver)
> +		return -ENOENT;
> +	drv = to_xenbus_driver(dev->driver);
> +	if (drv && drv->reclaim)
> +		drv->reclaim(to_xenbus_device(dev), DOMID_INVALID);

Oh, sorry for first requesting you to add the domid as a parameter,
but now I realize this could be handled in the xenbus driver, as
struct xenbus_device already contains the otherend_id.

Would you mind dropping the parameter again, please?


Juergen