From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
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>, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
Rafael Aquini <aquini@linux.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] mm: introduce compaction and migration for virtio ballooned pages
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 16:53:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5019975B.6010708@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120723181952.GA27373@t510.redhat.com>
On 07/23/2012 02:19 PM, Rafael Aquini wrote:
> In a glance, I believe this whole dance you're suggesting might just be too much
> of an overcomplication, and the best approach would be simply teaching the
> hotplug bits about the ballooned corner case just like it's being done to
> compaction/migration. However, I'll look at it carefully before making any other
> adjustments/propositions over here.
Compaction and hotplug do essentially the same thing
here: "collect all the movable pages from a page block,
and move them elsewhere".
Whether or not it is easier for them to share code, or
to duplicate a few lines of code, is something that can
be looked into later.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-01 20:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-17 16:50 [PATCH v4 0/3] make balloon pages movable by compaction Rafael Aquini
2012-07-17 16:50 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] mm: introduce compaction and migration for virtio ballooned pages Rafael Aquini
2012-07-18 5:48 ` Minchan Kim
2012-07-20 19:48 ` Rafael Aquini
2012-07-23 2:33 ` Minchan Kim
2012-07-23 2:35 ` Minchan Kim
2012-07-23 18:19 ` Rafael Aquini
2012-08-01 20:53 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2012-08-03 11:13 ` Rafael Aquini
2012-08-01 20:51 ` Rik van Riel
2012-08-03 12:26 ` Rafael Aquini
2012-07-18 22:46 ` Andrew Morton
2012-07-18 23:07 ` Rafael Aquini
2012-07-18 23:12 ` Andrew Morton
2012-07-19 1:00 ` Rafael Aquini
2012-07-19 1:29 ` Andrew Morton
2012-07-19 12:32 ` Rafael Aquini
2012-07-17 16:50 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] virtio_balloon: introduce migration primitives to balloon pages Rafael Aquini
2012-07-18 22:49 ` Andrew Morton
2012-07-18 23:16 ` Rafael Aquini
2012-07-17 16:50 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] mm: add vm event counters for balloon pages compaction Rafael Aquini
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