From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS, URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06A47C2BC61 for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2018 16:50:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 786F02081B for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2018 16:50:48 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="mLO4DhUZ" DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 786F02081B Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=linuxfoundation.org Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727771AbeJaBpA (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Oct 2018 21:45:00 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:54066 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727484AbeJaBpA (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Oct 2018 21:45:00 -0400 Received: from localhost (ip-213-127-77-176.ip.prioritytelecom.net [213.127.77.176]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F348D20664; Tue, 30 Oct 2018 16:50:44 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1540918245; bh=TmgARSgPS53rF2j9sW6Vxnn8vSv59GJF7tX+pW+IB/4=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=mLO4DhUZSFYZ8x926eDjDPUp+BL6v/RmYZjmARDyjAEufl5br+Sb4lEcL9drWWVID Sf1mSspfdq9dcn0is2wOsrCh5uZ6nXuSkPfForjV2pvAnmxmsUs+VeAeVBQnbEGEJI a4Uhju9G3yP3XXMWkzBKTmrkYU+222mXuOXN+rt4= Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 17:51:19 +0100 From: "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" To: Nadav Amit Cc: Arnd Bergmann , Xavier Deguillard , LKML , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Jason Wang , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/20] vmw_balloon: compaction, shrinker, 64-bit, etc. Message-ID: <20181030165119.GA23017@kroah.com> References: <20180926191336.101885-1-namit@vmware.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 04:32:22PM +0000, Nadav Amit wrote: > From: Nadav Amit > Sent: September 26, 2018 at 7:13:16 PM GMT > > To: Arnd Bergmann , gregkh@linuxfoundation.org > > Cc: Xavier Deguillard , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Nadav Amit , Michael S. Tsirkin , Jason Wang , linux-mm@kvack.org>, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org > > Subject: [PATCH v3 00/20] vmw_balloon: compaction, shrinker, 64-bit, etc. > > > > > > This patch-set adds the following enhancements to the VMware balloon > > driver: > > > > 1. Balloon compaction support. > > 2. Report the number of inflated/deflated ballooned pages through vmstat. > > 3. Memory shrinker to avoid balloon over-inflation (and OOM). > > 4. Support VMs with memory limit that is greater than 16TB. > > 5. Faster and more aggressive inflation. > > > > To support compaction we wish to use the existing infrastructure. > > However, we need to make slight adaptions for it. We add a new list > > interface to balloon-compaction, which is more generic and efficient, > > since it does not require as many IRQ save/restore operations. We leave > > the old interface that is used by the virtio balloon. > > > > Big parts of this patch-set are cleanup and documentation. Patches 1-13 > > simplify the balloon code, document its behavior and allow the balloon > > code to run concurrently. The support for concurrency is required for > > compaction and the shrinker interface. > > > > For documentation we use the kernel-doc format. We are aware that the > > balloon interface is not public, but following the kernel-doc format may > > be useful one day. > > > > v2->v3: * Moving the balloon magic-number out of uapi (Greg) > > > > v1->v2: * Fix build error when THP is off (kbuild) > > * Fix build error on i386 (kbuild) > > > > Greg, > > I realize you didn’t apply patches 17-20. Any reason for that? I have no idea, that was a few thousand patches reviewed ago... Did I not say anything about this when I applied them? greg k-h