Re: [PATCH v7 kernel 5/5] This patch contains two parts:

From: David Hildenbrand
Date: Mon Mar 06 2017 - 08:24:32 EST


Am 03.03.2017 um 06:40 schrieb Wei Wang:
> From: Liang Li <liang.z.li@xxxxxxxxx>

I'd prefer to split this into two parts then and to create proper subjects.

If I remember correctly, the general concept was accepted by most reviewers.

>
> One is to add a new API to mm go get the unused page information.
> The virtio balloon driver will use this new API added to get the
> unused page info and send it to hypervisor(QEMU) to speed up live
> migration. During sending the bitmap, some the pages may be modified
> and are used by the guest, this inaccuracy can be corrected by the
> dirty page logging mechanism.
>
> One is to add support the request for vm's unused page information,
> QEMU can make use of unused page information and the dirty page
> logging mechanism to skip the transportation of some of these unused
> pages, this is very helpful to reduce the network traffic and speed
> up the live migration process.

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Thanks,

David