[PATCH 0/2] support device init for balloon pages
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email protected]> Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:12:04 -0400
| Newsgroups | dev.linux.lists.virtio-comment |
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Once a page gets out of balloon (on deflate, or on access for reporting) the Linux guest inits it before giving it to app. It's a waste - the page is already inited by the host. Add balloon support for skipping that, that provides significant performance gains: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/ Michael S. Tsirkin (2): balloon: add VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_DEVICE_INIT_REPORTED balloon: add VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_DEVICE_INIT_DEFLATED device-types/balloon/description.tex | 108 ++++++++++++++++++++ device-types/balloon/device-conformance.tex | 2 + device-types/balloon/driver-conformance.tex | 2 + 3 files changed, 112 insertions(+) -- MST