Re: Linux does not use more than the startup RAM under Hyper-V with dynamic memory enabled RE: [PATCH 2/2] Drivers: hv: balloon: Online the hot-added memory "in context" Re: [PATCH 1/1] Drivers: hv:

[Brian Wong]

On 3/6/2014 6:13 AM, Victor Miasnikov wrote:
> Hi!
>
> VVM>>  Question to Linux kernel team: may be patch
> VVM>> >>> [PATCH 2/2] Drivers: hv: balloon: Online the hot-added memory
> "in context"
> VVM>> can solve problems with dynamic memory hot add in Hyper-V VMs with
> Linux OS ?
>
> K.Y.S>  I will try to get my in-context onlining patches accepted upstream.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Feature dynamic memory hot add in Hyper-V VMs with Linux OS  -- is very
> usefull for Hyper-V sysadmins
> Stable work for this feature -- must be hi-priority task for developers
>
>
> Best regards, Victor Miasnikov
> Blog:  http://vvm.blog.tut.by/
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "KY Srinivasan"
> To: "Victor Miasnikov"; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; "Brian Wong"
> Cc: "Abhishek Gupta (LIS)"
> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 1:23 PM
> Subject: RE: Linux does not use more than the startup RAM under Hyper-V
> with dynamic memory enabled RE: [PATCH 2/2]
> Drivers: hv: balloon: Online the hot-added memory "in context" Re:
> [PATCH 1/1] Drivers: hv:
>
>
> Victor,
>
> I will try to get my in-context onlining patches accepted upstream.
>
> K. Y
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Victor Miasnikov [mailto:vvm@xxxxxx]
> > Sent: Thursday, March 6, 2014 3:38 PM
> > To: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Brian Wong
> > Cc: Abhishek Gupta (LIS); KY Srinivasan
> > Subject: Re: Linux does not use more than the startup RAM under Hyper-V
> > with dynamic memory enabled RE: [PATCH 2/2] Drivers: hv: balloon: Online
> > the hot-added memory "in context" Re: [PATCH 1/1] Drivers: hv:
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Victor Miasnikov"
> To:  linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; "Brian Wong"
> Cc: "Abhishek Gupta (LIS)" ( zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz (at) microsoft.com>; "KY
> Srinivasan" zzzzzzzzzzz (at) microsoft.com
> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 1:07 PM
> Subject: Re: Linux does not use more than the startup RAM under Hyper-V
> with dynamic memory enabled RE: [PATCH 2/2]
> Drivers: hv: balloon: Online the hot-added memory "in context" Re:
> [PATCH 1/1] Drivers: hv:
>
> Hi!
>
> Short:
>
> Question to Linux kernel team:
>
> may be patch
>
> > > > [PATCH 2/2] Drivers: hv: balloon: Online the hot-added memory "in
> > > > context"
>
> can solve problems with dynamic memory hot add in Hyper-V VMs with Linux
> OS ?
>
>
>
> Full:
>
> BW>> .., if I set the startup memory to 512 MB, and enable dynamic
> BW>> memory with a minimum of 512 MB and a maximum of 8192 MB,
> BW>>  the system will never allocate than 512 MB of physical memory
>
> BW>>
> BW>> Have I encountered a bug in the Hyper-V balloon driver?
> BW>>
>
> Unfortunately,  It's long story . . . :-(
>
> a)
>
> I already ( on January 09, 2014 2:18 PM )  write about problems with
> "Online the hot-added memory"  in "user space" see
> P.P.S.
>
> b)
>
>   See
>
> Bug 979257 -[Hyper-V][RHEL6.5][RFE]in-kernel online support for memory
> hot-add
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=979257
>
> (  Info from this topic may be interessant not only for RedHat users )
>
>
> b2)
>
> Detail about pathes related problem "Online the hot-added memory"  in
> "user space" :
>
> > > > [PATCH 2/2] Drivers: hv: balloon: Online the hot-added memory "in
> > > > context"
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > === 0001-Drivers-base-memory-Export-functionality-for-in-kern.patch
> > > >  . . .
> > > > +/*
> > > > + * Given the start pfn of a memory block; bring the memory
> > > > + * block online. This API would be useful for drivers that may
> > > > + * want to bring "online" the memory that has been hot-added.
> > > > + */
> > > > +
> > > > +int online_memory_block(unsigned long start_pfn) {  struct mem_section
> > > > +*cur_section;  struct memory_block *cur_memory_block;
> > > >
> > > >  . . .
> > > > ===
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ==
> > > >  . . .
> > > > == 0002-Drivers-hv-balloon-Online-the-hot-added-memory-in-co.patch
> > > >   . . .
> > > >    /*
> > > > -   * Wait for the memory block to be onlined.
> > > > -   * Since the hot add has succeeded, it is ok to
> > > > -   * proceed even if the pages in the hot added region
> > > > -   * have not been "onlined" within the allowed time.
> > > > +   * Before proceeding to hot add the next segment,
> > > > +   * online the segment that has been hot added.
> > > >     */
> > > > -  wait_for_completion_timeout(&dm_device.ol_waitevent, 5*HZ);
> > > > +  online_memory_block(start_pfn);
> > > >
> > > >   }
>
>
>
>
> c)
>
>   Before apply patches ( see in P.S. about native udev-script) we are
> need use one of this methods:
>
> http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/8e1994b9-9ca1-4411-ad8e-25e6b1ee28e1/dynamic-memory-on-linux-vm?forum=linuxintegrationservices
>
>
>
>
> c1)
>
> "/bin/cp method" by Nikolay Pushkarev :
>
> Following udev rule works slightly faster for me (assuming that memory0
> bank always in online state):
>
> SUBSYSTEM=="memory", ACTION=="add",
> DEVPATH=="/devices/system/memory/memory[1-9]*",
> RUN+="/bin/cp /sys$devpath/../memory0/state /sys$devpath/state"}}
>
> ( VVM : of course all need be place in one line, 2 line in this msg. --
> only for good visual formating reasons )
>
>
> c2)
>
> udev rule using "putarg" by Nikolay Pushkarev :
>
>
> Even "/bin/cp method" udev rule work time to time not as need :-(
>
>
> As a result, Nikolay Pushkarev write a program putarg.c, that is even
> faster than "/bin/cp method" :
>
> ==
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <fcntl.h>
> #include <sys/ioctl.h>
> #include <string.h>
> int main(int argc, char** argv) {
>   int i, fd;
>   if (argc < 2) return 0;
>   if ((fd = open(argv[1], O_RDWR)) < 0) return 1;
>   for (i = 2; i < argc; i++) {
>     if (write(fd, argv[i], strlen(argv[i])) < 0) {
>       close(fd);
>       return i;
>     }
>   }
>   close(fd);
>   return 0;
> }
> ==
>
> The first argument - the name of the output file ,
> and argument number 2 ( and all subsequent (  if exist ) ) - are text
> that are wiil be written in output file.
>
>
> Compile source code to executable file by run command:
> gcc -o putarg -s putarg.c
>
> The resulting binary need be placed an accessible location , such as
> /usr/bin, or wherever you want.
>
>
> Now udev rule using "putarg" can be written as :
>
> SUBSYSTEM=="memory", ACTION=="add", RUN+="/usr/bin/putarg
> /sys$devpath/state online"
>
>
> This complex solutions ( compiled file and udev-rule ) works
> exceptionally fast.
>
>
>
>
>
> Best regards, Victor Miasnikov
> Blog:  http://vvm.blog.tut.by/
>
> P.S.
>
> Nikolay Pushkarev about standart udev-script :
>
> {{
>
> Strange, that the native udev-script
>
> SUBSYSTEM=="memory", ACTION=="add", ATTR{state}="online"
>
>
> triggered somehow through time ( VVM: very often not work as need )
>
>
> }}
>
>
>
> P.P.S.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Victor Miasnikov"
> To: "Dan Carpenter"; "K. Y. Srinivasan" ; <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Greg KH" ; <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <olaf (at) aepfle.de>;
> ""Andy Whitcroft"" <zzzzzzzzzzzz (at)
> canonical.com>;
> <jasowang (at) redhat.com>
> Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 2:18 PM
> Subject: RE: [PATCH 2/2] Drivers: hv: balloon: Online the hot-added
> memory "in context" Re: [PATCH 1/1] Drivers: hv:
> Implement the file copy service
>
>
> Hi!
>
> > Is there no way we could implement file copying in user space?
>
>
>   For "file copy service"  "user space"  may be pretty good
>
> But I ( and other Hyper-V sysadmin)  see non-Ok ( in "political correct"
> terminalogy) results with "hv: balloon: Online
> the hot-added memory" in "user space"
>
>
> ==
> [PATCH 2/2] Drivers: hv: balloon: Online the hot-added memory "in context"
> ==
>
>
> What news?  Roadmap?
>
>
> Best regards, Victor Miasnikov
> Blog:  http://vvm.blog.tut.by/
>
>
>
>
> P.P.S.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Wong"
> To: <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 9:24 AM
> Subject: Re: Linux does not use more than the startup RAM under Hyper-V
> with dynamic memory enabled
>
>
> On 3/6/2014 1:20 AM, Brian Wong wrote:
>
>    . . .
>
> > The kernel is built with the full set of Hyper-V drivers, including the
> > key "Microsoft Hyper-V Balloon Driver" as well as memory hot-add and
> > hot-remove functionality. This is happening with both the Gentoo-patched
> > 3.10.32 kernel and the vanilla 3.12.5 kernel. The host machine has a
> > total of 24 GB of memory.
> >
> > For now, I am working around the issue by starting the VM with the
> > startup memory set to the maximum and letting Hyper-V take the usused
> > memory back when it is not in use. The VM will then get the extra memory
> > when it needs it.
> >
> > Have I encountered a bug in the Hyper-V balloon driver?
>
> Just a correction: the vanilla kernel version is 3.13.5, not 3.12.5.
> Sorry for any confusion.

So can I expect to see this patched by the next kernel version?

--
Brian Wong
http://www.fierydragonlord.com
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