Re: [virtio-dev] Re: [PATCH v2] virtio_balloon: export hugetlb page allocation counts

[Jonathan Helman <jonathan.helman@oracle.com>]

On 03/22/2018 07:38 PM, Jason Wang wrote:
> On 2018年03月22日 11:10, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 09:52:18AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> > > On 2018年03月20日 12:26, Jonathan Helman wrote:
> > > > > On Mar 19, 2018, at 7:31 PM, Jason Wang<jasowang@redhat.com>  wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On 2018年03月20日 06:14, Jonathan Helman wrote:
> > > > > > Export the number of successful and failed hugetlb page
> > > > > > allocations via the virtio balloon driver. These 2 counts
> > > > > > come directly from the vm_events HTLB_BUDDY_PGALLOC and
> > > > > > HTLB_BUDDY_PGALLOC_FAIL.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Signed-off-by: Jonathan Helman<jonathan.helman@oracle.com>
> > > > > Reviewed-by: Jason Wang<jasowang@redhat.com>
> > > > Thanks.
> > > >
> > > > > > ---
> > > > > >    drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c     | 6 ++++++
> > > > > >    include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h | 4 +++-
> > > > > >    2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c 
> > > > > > b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
> > > > > > index dfe5684..6b237e3 100644
> > > > > > --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
> > > > > > +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
> > > > > > @@ -272,6 +272,12 @@ static unsigned int 
> > > > > > update_balloon_stats(struct virtio_balloon *vb)
> > > > > >                    pages_to_bytes(events[PSWPOUT]));
> > > > > >        update_stat(vb, idx++, VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_MAJFLT, 
> > > > > > events[PGMAJFAULT]);
> > > > > >        update_stat(vb, idx++, VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_MINFLT, 
> > > > > > events[PGFAULT]);
> > > > > > +#ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE
> > > > > > +    update_stat(vb, idx++, VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_HTLB_PGALLOC,
> > > > > > +            events[HTLB_BUDDY_PGALLOC]);
> > > > > > +    update_stat(vb, idx++, VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_HTLB_PGFAIL,
> > > > > > +            events[HTLB_BUDDY_PGALLOC_FAIL]);
> > > > > > +#endif
> > > > > >    #endif
> > > > > >        update_stat(vb, idx++, VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_MEMFREE,
> > > > > >                    pages_to_bytes(i.freeram));
> > > > > > diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h 
> > > > > > b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h
> > > > > > index 4e8b830..40297a3 100644
> > > > > > --- a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h
> > > > > > +++ b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h
> > > > > > @@ -53,7 +53,9 @@ struct virtio_balloon_config {
> > > > > >    #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_MEMTOT   5   /* Total amount of memory */
> > > > > >    #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_AVAIL    6   /* Available memory as in 
> > > > > > /proc */
> > > > > >    #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_CACHES   7   /* Disk caches */
> > > > > > -#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_NR       8
> > > > > > +#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_HTLB_PGALLOC  8  /* Hugetlb page 
> > > > > > allocations */
> > > > > > +#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_HTLB_PGFAIL   9  /* Hugetlb page 
> > > > > > allocation failures */
> > > > > > +#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_NR       10
> > > > > >      /*
> > > > > >     * Memory statistics structure.
> > > > > Not for this patch, but it looks to me that exporting such nr 
> > > > > through uapi is fragile.
> > > > Sorry, can you explain what you mean here?
> > > >
> > > > Jon
> > > Spec said "Within an output buffer submitted to the statsq, the 
> > > device MUST
> > > ignore entries with tag values that it does not recognize". So exporting
> > > VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_NR seems useless and device implementation can not 
> > > depend
> > > on such number in uapi.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > Suggestions? I don't like to break build for people ...
>
> Didn't have a good idea. But maybe we should keep VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_NR 
> unchanged, and add a comment here.
>
> Thanks

I think Jason's comment is for a future patch. Didn't see this patch get 
applied, so wondering if it could be.

Thanks,
Jon