From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx164.postini.com [74.125.245.164]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 01C996B0044 for ; Wed, 8 Aug 2012 21:38:17 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <50231467.80603@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2012 21:37:43 -0400 From: Rik van Riel MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/3] mm: introduce compaction and migration for virtio ballooned pages References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Rafael Aquini Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, Rusty Russell , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Mel Gorman , Andi Kleen , Andrew Morton , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , Minchan Kim On 08/08/2012 06:53 PM, Rafael Aquini wrote: > Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce significantly > the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be used within a guest, > thus imposing performance penalties associated with the reduced number of > transparent huge pages that could be used by the guest workload. > > This patch introduces the helper functions as well as the necessary changes > to 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 Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel -- All rights reversed -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org