RE: [PATCH v11 0/6] Virtio-balloon Enhancement

From	"Wang, Wei W" <wei.w.wang@intel.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	RE: [PATCH v11 0/6] Virtio-balloon Enhancement
Date	2017-06-09 13:20 +0200
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On Friday, June 9, 2017 6:42 PM, Wang, Wei W wrote:
> To: virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; qemu-
> devel@nongnu.org; virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org;
> kvm@vger.kernel.org; linux-mm@kvack.org; mst@redhat.com;
> david@redhat.com; Hansen, Dave <dave.hansen@intel.com>;
> cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com; akpm@linux-foundation.org;
> mgorman@techsingularity.net; aarcange@redhat.com; amit.shah@redhat.com;
> pbonzini@redhat.com; Wang, Wei W <wei.w.wang@intel.com>;
> liliang.opensource@gmail.com
> Subject: [PATCH v11 0/6] Virtio-balloon Enhancement
> 
> This patch series enhances the existing virtio-balloon with the following new
> features:
> 1) fast ballooning: transfer ballooned pages between the guest and host in
> chunks, instead of one by one; and
> 2) cmdq: a new virtqueue to send commands between the device and driver.
> Currently, it supports commands to report memory stats (replace the old statq
> mechanism) and report guest unused pages.

v10->v11 changes:
1) virtio_balloon: use vring_desc to describe a chunk;
2) virtio_ring: support to add an indirect desc table to virtqueue;
3)  virtio_balloon: use cmdq to report guest memory statistics.

> 
> Liang Li (1):
>   virtio-balloon: deflate via a page list
> 
> Wei Wang (5):
>   virtio-balloon: coding format cleanup
>   virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_CHUNKS
>   mm: function to offer a page block on the free list
>   mm: export symbol of next_zone and first_online_pgdat
>   virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_CMD_VQ
> 
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c     | 781 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> --
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c        | 120 +++++-
>  include/linux/mm.h                  |   5 +
>  include/linux/virtio.h              |   7 +
>  include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h |  14 +
>  include/uapi/linux/virtio_ring.h    |   3 +
>  mm/mmzone.c                         |   2 +
>  mm/page_alloc.c                     |  91 +++++
>  8 files changed, 950 insertions(+), 73 deletions(-)
> 
> --
> 2.7.4

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[PATCH v11 0/6] Virtio-balloon Enhancement Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com> - 2017-06-09 12:50 +0200
  [PATCH v11 5/6] mm: export symbol of next_zone and first_online_pgdat Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com> - 2017-06-09 12:50 +0200
  [PATCH v11 4/6] mm: function to offer a page block on the free list Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com> - 2017-06-09 12:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v11 4/6] mm: function to offer a page block on the free  list Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> - 2017-06-12 16:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v11 4/6] mm: function to offer a page block on the free  list "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2017-06-12 18:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v11 4/6] mm: function to offer a page block on the free  list Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> - 2017-06-12 18:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v11 4/6] mm: function to offer a page block on the free  list "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2017-06-12 22:40 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v11 4/6] mm: function to offer a page block on the free  list Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> - 2017-06-12 23:00 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v11 4/6] mm: function to offer a page block on the free  list Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com> - 2017-06-13 05:00 +0200
  [PATCH v11 1/6] virtio-balloon: deflate via a page list Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com> - 2017-06-09 12:50 +0200
  [PATCH v11 2/6] virtio-balloon: coding format cleanup Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com> - 2017-06-09 12:50 +0200
  [PATCH v11 6/6] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_CMD_VQ Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com> - 2017-06-09 12:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v11 6/6] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_CMD_VQ Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> - 2017-06-12 16:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v11 6/6] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_CMD_VQ Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com> - 2017-06-13 12:20 +0200
  [PATCH v11 3/6] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_CHUNKS Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com> - 2017-06-09 13:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v11 3/6] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_CHUNKS "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2017-06-13 20:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v11 3/6] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_CHUNKS Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> - 2017-06-13 20:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v11 3/6] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_CHUNKS "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2017-06-13 21:00 +0200
      Re: [virtio-dev] Re: [PATCH v11 3/6] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_CHUNKS Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com> - 2017-06-15 10:10 +0200
        Re: [virtio-dev] Re: [PATCH v11 3/6] virtio-balloon:  VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_CHUNKS "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2017-06-16 05:20 +0200
  RE: [PATCH v11 0/6] Virtio-balloon Enhancement "Wang, Wei W" <wei.w.wang@intel.com> - 2017-06-09 13:20 +0200

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