[PATCH v4 0/9] Fourth revision of the performance improvement patch to the VMware balloon driver

From: Philip P. Moltmann
Date: Thu Aug 06 2015 - 16:36:23 EST


This is the fourth revision fo the path to the VMWare balloon driver. The original
was send to linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 4/14/15 10.29 am PST. Please refer to
the original change for an overview.

v1:
- Initial implementation
v2
- Address suggestions by Dmitry Totoknov
- Use UINT_MAX as "infitite" rate instead of special casing -1
v3:
- Change commit comment for step 6 to better explain what impact ballooning has
on the VM performance.
v4:
- Add missing include header <linux/vmalloc.h> in step 3

Thanks
Philip

Philip P. Moltmann (5):
VMware balloon: Show capabilities of balloon and resulting
capabilities in the debug-fs node.
VMware balloon: Do not limit the amount of frees and allocations in
non-sleep mode.
VMware balloon: Support 2m page ballooning.
VMware balloon: Treat init like reset
VMware balloon: Enable notification via VMCI

Xavier Deguillard (4):
VMware balloon: partially inline vmballoon_reserve_page.
VMware balloon: Add support for balloon capabilities.
VMware balloon: add batching to the vmw_balloon.
VMware balloon: Update balloon target on each lock/unlock.

drivers/misc/Kconfig | 2 +-
drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c | 955 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
2 files changed, 718 insertions(+), 239 deletions(-)

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