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Subject: [RFC PATCH 0/1] virtio-balloon: Add Working Set Reporting feature
This is a proposed spec expansion for a Working Set Reporting feature in the balloon with driver patch here: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20230509185419.1088297-1-yuanchu@google.com/ with device implementation here: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2023-05/msg02503.html It describes the requirements for a VIRTIO_F_WS_REPORTING feature bit on the balloon device. Motivation ========== When we have a system with overcommitted memory and 1 or more VMs, we seek to get both timely and accurate information on overall memory utilization in order to drive appropriate reclaim activities. For example, in some client device use cases a VM might need a significant fraction of the overall memory for a period of time, but then enter a quiet period that results in a large number of cold pages in the guest. The balloon device has a number of features to assist in sharing memory resources amongst the guests and host (e.g free page hinting, stats, free page reporting). As mentioned in slide 12 in [1], the balloon doesn't have a good mechanism to drive the reclaim of guest cache. Our use case includes both typical page cache as well as "application caches" with memory that should be discarded in times of system-wide memory pressure. Working Set Reporting ===================== Working Set reporting in the balloon provides: - an accurate picture of current memory utilization in the guest - event driven reporting (with configurable rate limiting) to deliver reports during times of memory pressure. The reporting mechanism can be combined with a domain-specific balloon policy to drive the separate reclaim activities in a coordinated fashion. TODOs: ====== - There are some small differences between this spec and the implementation in the data exchange protocol in the device. We wanted to get feedback on this diff at an early stage though, rather than get every piece nailed down with precision. References: [1] https://kvmforum2020.sched.com/event/eE4U/virtio-balloonpmemmem-managing-guest-memory-david-hildenbrand-michael-s-tsirkin-red-hat T.J. Alumbaugh (1): virtio-balloon: Add Working Set Reporting feature device-types/balloon/description.tex | 228 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 227 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) -- 2.40.1.606.ga4b1b128d6-goog
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