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[RFC,QEMU] i386/kvm: Enable paravirtual unused page hint mechanism

Message ID 20190204181825.12252.81443.stgit@localhost.localdomain (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series [RFC,QEMU] i386/kvm: Enable paravirtual unused page hint mechanism | expand

Commit Message

Alexander Duyck Feb. 4, 2019, 6:19 p.m. UTC 
From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>

This patch adds the flag named kvm-pv-unused-page-hint. This functionality
is enabled by kvm for x86 and provides a mechanism by which the guest can
indicate to the host which pages it is no longer using. By providing these
hints the guest can help to reduce the memory pressure on the host as
dirtied pages will be cleared and not written out to swap if they are
marked as being unused.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>
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 target/i386/cpu.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/target/i386/cpu.c b/target/i386/cpu.c
index 2f5412592d30..0d19a9dc64f1 100644
--- a/target/i386/cpu.c
+++ b/target/i386/cpu.c
@@ -900,7 +900,7 @@  static FeatureWordInfo feature_word_info[FEATURE_WORDS] = {
             "kvmclock", "kvm-nopiodelay", "kvm-mmu", "kvmclock",
             "kvm-asyncpf", "kvm-steal-time", "kvm-pv-eoi", "kvm-pv-unhalt",
             NULL, "kvm-pv-tlb-flush", NULL, "kvm-pv-ipi",
-            NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL,
+            "kvm-pv-unused-page-hint", NULL, NULL, NULL,
             NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL,
             NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL,
             "kvmclock-stable-bit", NULL, NULL, NULL,