From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
Nitesh Narayan Lal <nitesh@redhat.com>,
kvm list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
lcapitulino@redhat.com, pagupta@redhat.com, wei.w.wang@intel.com,
Yang Zhang <yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com>,
Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>,
dodgen@google.com, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
dhildenb@redhat.com, Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: On guest free page hinting and OOM
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2019 09:28:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190404083321-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKgT0UcrkXKjMgYy2H3MKQxG71ScNqhwqxwti7QjvPSxtb8FBg@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 04:43:03PM -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> Yes, but hopefully it should be a small enough amount that nobody will
> notice. In many cases devices such as NICs can consume much more than
> this regularly for just their Rx buffers and it is not an issue. There
> has to be a certain amount of overhead that any given device is
> allowed to consume. If we contain the balloon hinting to just 64M that
> should be a small enough amount that nobody would notice in practice.
I am still inclined to add ability for balloon to exit to host on OOM
if any hints are outstanding.
If nothing else will be helpful for stats.
--
MST
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-04 13:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-29 13:26 On guest free page hinting and OOM Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-03-29 14:24 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-03-29 15:08 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-03-29 15:37 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-03-29 15:45 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-03-29 16:51 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-04-01 8:17 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-04-01 13:24 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-04-01 14:09 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-04-01 14:11 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-04-01 14:47 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-04-01 14:54 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-04-01 20:56 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-04-02 7:42 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-04-02 15:04 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-04-02 15:25 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-04-02 15:57 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-04-02 16:18 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-04-02 17:08 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-04-02 17:45 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-04-02 17:53 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-04-02 20:32 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-04-02 18:21 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-04-02 19:49 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-04-02 20:32 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-04-02 15:55 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-04-02 17:30 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-04-02 18:53 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-04-02 23:43 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-04-03 19:43 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-04-04 13:28 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2019-04-02 16:19 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-04-01 14:45 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-03-29 16:09 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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