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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v12 6/8] mm: support reporting free page blocks
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Michal Hocko |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v12 6/8] mm: support reporting free page blocks |
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Wed, 19 Jul 2017 10:13:12 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) |
On Tue 18-07-17 10:12:14, Wei Wang wrote:
[...]
> Probably I should have included the introduction of the usages in
> the log. Hope it is not too later to explain here:
Yes this should have been described in the cover.
> Live migration needs to transfer the VM's memory from the source
> machine to the destination round by round. For the 1st round, all the VM's
> memory is transferred. From the 2nd round, only the pieces of memory
> that were written by the guest (after the 1st round) are transferred. One
> method that is popularly used by the hypervisor to track which part of
> memory is written is to write-protect all the guest memory.
>
> This patch enables the optimization of the 1st round memory transfer -
> the hypervisor can skip the transfer of guest unused pages in the 1st round.
All you should need is the check for the page reference count, no? I
assume you do some sort of pfn walk and so you should be able to get an
access to the struct page.
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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