[v4,0/2] xenbus/backend: Add a memory pressure handler callback

Message

SeongJae Park Dec. 9, 2019, 7:43 p.m. UTC

Granting pages consumes backend system memory.  In systems configured
with insufficient spare memory for those pages, it can cause a memory
pressure situation.  However, finding the optimal amount of the spare
memory is challenging for large systems having dynamic resource
utilization patterns.  Also, such a static configuration might lacks a
flexibility.

To mitigate such problems, this patchset adds a memory reclaim callback
to 'xenbus_driver' (patch 1) and use it to mitigate the problem in
'xen-blkback' (patch 2).

Base Version
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This patch is based on v5.4.  A complete tree is also available at my
public git repo:
https://github.com/sjp38/linux/tree/blkback_squeezing_v4


Patch History
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Changes from v3 (https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/[e-mail]/)
 - Add general callback in xen_driver and use it (suggested by Juergen
   Gross)

Changes from v2 (https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/[e-mail])
 - Rename the module parameter and variables for brevity (aggressive
   shrinking -> squeezing)

Changes from v1 (https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/[e-mail]/)
 - Adjust the description to not use the term, `arbitrarily` (suggested
   by Paul Durrant)
 - Specify time unit of the duration in the parameter description,
   (suggested by Maximilian Heyne)
 - Change default aggressive shrinking duration from 1ms to 10ms
 - Merge two patches into one single patch

SeongJae Park (1):
  xen/blkback: Squeeze page pools if a memory pressure is detected

 drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

SeongJae Park (2):
  xenbus/backend: Add memory pressure handler callback
  xen/blkback: Squeeze page pools if a memory pressure is detected

 drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c       | 23 +++++++++++++++--
 drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h        |  1 +
 drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c        |  3 ++-
 drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe_backend.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/xen/xenbus.h                      |  1 +
 5 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)