Re: [PATCH] Add a page cache-backed balloon device driver.

[Avi Kivity]

On 06/26/2012 11:32 PM, Frank Swiderski wrote:
> This implementation of a virtio balloon driver uses the page cache to
> "store" pages that have been released to the host.  The communication
> (outside of target counts) is one way--the guest notifies the host when
> it adds a page to the page cache, allowing the host to madvise(2) with
> MADV_DONTNEED.  Reclaim in the guest is therefore automatic and implicit
> (via the regular page reclaim).  This means that inflating the balloon
> is similar to the existing balloon mechanism, but the deflate is
> different--it re-uses existing Linux kernel functionality to
> automatically reclaim.

Interesting idea.

How is the host able to manage overcommit this way?  If deflate is not
host controlled, the host may start swapping guests out to disk if they
all self-deflate.


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