Re: [PATCH] kvm: make mmu_shrink() fit shrinker's requirement

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

  On 08/13/2010 11:10 PM, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 12:28 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> On 08/04/2010 10:13 AM, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
>>> mmu_shrink() should attempt to free @nr_to_scan entries.
>> This conflicts with Dave's patchset.
>>
>> Dave, what's going on with those patches?  They're starting to smell.
> These seem to fix the original problem reporter's issue.  They were run
> with 64 guests on a 32GB machine.  No stability problems popped up in
> this testing, or since I last sent the patches to you.  The results from
> both the test with only the first four patches and with the entire set
> of nine looked pretty identical.
>
> That tells me that we should only push the first four for now:
>
> 	abstract kvm x86 mmu->n_free_mmu_pages
> 	rename x86 kvm->arch.n_alloc_mmu_pages
> 	replace x86 kvm n_free_mmu_pages with n_used_mmu_pages
> 	create aggregate kvm_total_used_mmu_pages value

Well, patches 3 and 4 have unaddressed review comments. Please fix them 
up. If you don't have the time, let me know and I'll do it instead.

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