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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	virtualization <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	KVM list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	liliang.opensource@gmail.com, yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com,
	quan.xu0@gmail.com, nilal@redhat.com,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	peterx@redhat.com
Subject: [virtio-dev] Re: [PATCH v35 1/5] mm: support to get hints of free page blocks
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2018 22:36:50 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180711223040-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180711110949.GJ20050@dhcp22.suse.cz>

On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 01:09:49PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> But let me note that I am not really convinced how this (or previous)
> approach will really work in most workloads. We tend to cache heavily so
> there is rarely any memory free.

It might be that it's worth flushing the cache when VM is
migrating. Or maybe we should implement virtio-tmem or add
transcendent memory support to the balloon.

-- 
MST

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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	virtualization <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	KVM list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	liliang.opensource@gmail.com, yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com,
	quan.xu0@gmail.com, nilal@redhat.com,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	peterx@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v35 1/5] mm: support to get hints of free page blocks
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2018 22:36:50 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180711223040-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180711110949.GJ20050@dhcp22.suse.cz>

On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 01:09:49PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> But let me note that I am not really convinced how this (or previous)
> approach will really work in most workloads. We tend to cache heavily so
> there is rarely any memory free.

It might be that it's worth flushing the cache when VM is
migrating. Or maybe we should implement virtio-tmem or add
transcendent memory support to the balloon.

-- 
MST

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-07-11 19:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-10  9:31 [virtio-dev] [PATCH v35 0/5] Virtio-balloon: support free page reporting Wei Wang
2018-07-10  9:31 ` Wei Wang
2018-07-10  9:31 ` Wei Wang
2018-07-10  9:31 ` [PATCH v35 1/5] mm: support to get hints of free page blocks Wei Wang
2018-07-10  9:31 ` [virtio-dev] " Wei Wang
2018-07-10  9:31   ` Wei Wang
2018-07-10 10:16   ` [virtio-dev] " Wang, Wei W
2018-07-10 10:16     ` Wang, Wei W
2018-07-10 10:16   ` Wang, Wei W
2018-07-10 17:33   ` Linus Torvalds
2018-07-10 17:33     ` Linus Torvalds
2018-07-11  1:28     ` Wei Wang
2018-07-11  1:28     ` [virtio-dev] " Wei Wang
2018-07-11  1:28       ` Wei Wang
2018-07-11  1:44       ` Linus Torvalds
2018-07-11  9:21         ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-11  9:21           ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-11 10:52           ` [virtio-dev] " Wei Wang
2018-07-11 10:52             ` Wei Wang
2018-07-11 10:52             ` Wei Wang
2018-07-11 11:09             ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-11 11:09               ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-11 13:55               ` [virtio-dev] " Wang, Wei W
2018-07-11 13:55                 ` Wang, Wei W
2018-07-11 14:38                 ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-11 14:38                 ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-11 13:55               ` Wang, Wei W
2018-07-11 19:36               ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2018-07-11 19:36                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-07-11 19:36               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-07-11 16:23           ` Linus Torvalds
2018-07-12  2:21             ` [virtio-dev] " Wei Wang
2018-07-12  2:21               ` Wei Wang
2018-07-12  2:30               ` Linus Torvalds
2018-07-12  2:30               ` Linus Torvalds
2018-07-12  2:52                 ` [virtio-dev] " Wei Wang
2018-07-12  2:52                   ` Wei Wang
2018-07-12  2:52                   ` Wei Wang
2018-07-12  8:13                   ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-12 11:34                     ` [virtio-dev] " Wei Wang
2018-07-12 11:34                       ` Wei Wang
2018-07-12 11:49                       ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-12 11:49                       ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-13  0:33                         ` [virtio-dev] " Wei Wang
2018-07-13  0:33                           ` Wei Wang
2018-07-13  0:33                         ` Wei Wang
2018-07-12 11:34                     ` Wei Wang
2018-07-12  8:13                   ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-12  2:21             ` Wei Wang
2018-07-12 13:12             ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-12 13:12               ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-11 16:23           ` Linus Torvalds
2018-07-11  1:44       ` Linus Torvalds
2018-07-11  4:00     ` [virtio-dev] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-07-11  4:00       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-07-11  4:04       ` [virtio-dev] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-07-11  4:04         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-07-11  4:04       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-07-11  4:00     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-07-10  9:31 ` [PATCH v35 2/5] virtio-balloon: remove BUG() in init_vqs Wei Wang
2018-07-10  9:31 ` [virtio-dev] " Wei Wang
2018-07-10  9:31   ` Wei Wang
2018-07-10  9:31 ` [PATCH v35 3/5] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT Wei Wang
2018-07-10  9:31 ` [virtio-dev] " Wei Wang
2018-07-10  9:31   ` Wei Wang
2018-07-10  9:31 ` [PATCH v35 4/5] mm/page_poison: expose page_poisoning_enabled to kernel modules Wei Wang
2018-07-10  9:31 ` [virtio-dev] " Wei Wang
2018-07-10  9:31   ` Wei Wang
2018-07-10  9:31 ` [PATCH v35 5/5] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_POISON Wei Wang
2018-07-10  9:31 ` [virtio-dev] " Wei Wang
2018-07-10  9:31   ` Wei Wang

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