From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
Cyclonus J <cyclonusj@gmail.com>,
Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Konrad Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
ngupta@vflare.org, Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
JBeulich@novell.com, Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] mm: frontswap (for 3.2 window)
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:29:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EC29367.9040106@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cb397723-5297-493d-9bbd-522a6400a5a6@default>
On 11/02/2011 05:14 PM, Dan Magenheimer wrote:
> It occurs to me that batching could be done locally without
> changing the in-kernel "API" (i.e. frontswap_ops)... the
> guest-side KVM tmem-backend-driver could do the compression
> into guest-side memory and make a single
> hypercall=vmexit/vmenter whenever it has collected enough for
> a batch.
That seems like the best way to do it, indeed.
Do the current hooks allow that mode of operation,
or do the hooks only return after the entire operation
has completed?
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2011-10-27 18:52 [GIT PULL] mm: frontswap (for 3.2 window) Dan Magenheimer
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2011-10-27 19:30 ` Kurt Hackel
2011-10-27 20:18 ` David Rientjes
2011-10-27 21:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-27 21:49 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-27 21:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-27 22:21 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-28 7:12 ` Sasha Levin
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2011-10-28 7:30 ` Cyclonus J
2011-10-28 14:26 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-10-28 15:21 ` Dan Magenheimer
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2011-10-28 15:36 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-10-28 16:30 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-10-28 17:01 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-10-28 17:07 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-28 18:28 ` John Stoffel
2011-10-28 20:19 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-28 20:52 ` John Stoffel
2011-10-30 19:18 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-30 20:06 ` Dave Hansen
2011-10-30 21:50 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-02 19:45 ` Rik van Riel
2011-11-02 20:45 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-06 22:32 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-11-08 12:15 ` Ed Tomlinson
2011-10-31 8:12 ` James Bottomley
2011-10-31 15:39 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-01 10:13 ` James Bottomley
2011-11-01 18:10 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-01 18:48 ` Dave Hansen
2011-11-01 21:32 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-02 7:44 ` James Bottomley
2011-11-02 19:39 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-31 18:44 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-30 21:47 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-10-30 23:19 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-31 18:34 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-31 21:45 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-28 16:37 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-28 16:59 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-10-28 17:20 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-31 18:16 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-31 20:58 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-31 22:37 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-31 23:36 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-01 1:20 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-01 16:41 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-01 18:07 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-01 21:00 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-02 1:31 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-02 19:06 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-03 0:32 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-03 22:29 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-02 20:51 ` Rik van Riel
2011-11-02 21:14 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-15 16:29 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2011-11-15 17:33 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-11-16 14:49 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-11-01 10:16 ` James Bottomley
2011-11-01 18:21 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-02 8:14 ` James Bottomley
2011-11-02 20:08 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-03 10:30 ` Theodore Tso
2011-11-03 14:59 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-02 15:44 ` Avi Kivity
2011-11-02 16:02 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-02 16:13 ` Avi Kivity
2011-11-02 20:27 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-02 20:19 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-27 21:44 ` Avi Miller
2011-10-27 22:33 ` Brian King
2011-10-28 5:17 ` Nitin Gupta
2011-10-29 13:43 ` Ed Tomlinson
2011-10-31 8:13 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-10-31 16:38 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-01 0:50 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-11-01 15:25 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-01 21:43 ` Andrew Morton
2011-11-01 22:25 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-02 21:03 ` Rik van Riel
2011-11-02 21:42 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-02 1:14 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-11-02 15:12 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-04 4:19 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-11-03 16:49 ` Jan Beulich
2011-11-04 0:54 ` Andrew Morton
2011-11-04 8:49 ` Jan Beulich
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