From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] mm: introduce compaction and migration for virtio ballooned pages
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 09:17:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FE9B677.8040409@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7f83427b3894af7969c67acc0f27ab5aa68b4279.1340665087.git.aquini@redhat.com>
On 06/25/2012 07:25 PM, Rafael Aquini wrote:
> This patch introduces helper functions that teach compaction and migration bits
> how to cope with pages which are part of a guest memory balloon, in order to
> make them movable by memory compaction procedures.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini<aquini@redhat.com>
The function fill_balloon in drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
should probably add __GFP_MOVABLE to the gfp mask for alloc_pages,
to keep the pageblock where balloon pages are allocated marked
as movable.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-26 13:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-25 23:25 [PATCH 0/4] make balloon pages movable by compaction Rafael Aquini
2012-06-25 23:25 ` [PATCH 1/4] mm: introduce compaction and migration for virtio ballooned pages Rafael Aquini
2012-06-25 23:31 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-06-25 23:57 ` Rafael Aquini
2012-06-26 10:17 ` Mel Gorman
2012-06-26 16:52 ` Andi Kleen
2012-06-26 16:54 ` Andi Kleen
2012-06-26 20:15 ` Mel Gorman
2012-06-26 20:34 ` Andi Kleen
2012-06-27 9:42 ` Mel Gorman
2012-06-26 22:01 ` Rafael Aquini
2012-06-26 13:17 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2012-06-26 13:20 ` Mel Gorman
2012-06-26 23:57 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-06-27 15:17 ` Rafael Aquini
2012-06-27 15:30 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-06-25 23:25 ` [PATCH 2/4] virtio_balloon: handle concurrent accesses to virtio_balloon struct elements Rafael Aquini
2012-06-25 23:25 ` [PATCH 3/4] virtio_balloon: introduce migration primitives to balloon pages Rafael Aquini
2012-06-25 23:25 ` [PATCH 4/4] mm: add vm event counters for balloon pages compaction Rafael Aquini
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