From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 1/5] mm: introduce a common interface for balloon pages mobility
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 13:59:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50366F72.3040700@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120823172844.GC10777@t510.redhat.com>
On 08/23/2012 01:28 PM, Rafael Aquini wrote:
> What about keep a conter at virtio_balloon structure on how much pages are
> isolated from balloon's list and check it at leak time?
> if the counter gets > 0 than we can safely put leak_balloon() to wait until
> balloon page list gets completely refilled.
We only have to wait if we failed to leak enough
pages, and then only for as many additional pages
as we require.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-23 18:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-21 12:47 [PATCH v8 0/5] make balloon pages movable by compaction Rafael Aquini
2012-08-21 12:47 ` [PATCH v8 1/5] mm: introduce a common interface for balloon pages mobility Rafael Aquini
2012-08-21 13:52 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-21 14:25 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-21 15:16 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-08-21 15:41 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-21 17:42 ` Rafael Aquini
2012-08-21 19:28 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-21 17:55 ` Rafael Aquini
2012-08-21 19:16 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-21 19:34 ` Rafael Aquini
2012-08-22 0:06 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-21 15:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-08-21 16:24 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-08-21 17:28 ` Rafael Aquini
2012-08-21 19:13 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-21 19:23 ` Rafael Aquini
2012-08-21 19:30 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-21 20:45 ` Rafael Aquini
2012-08-22 0:07 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-22 1:19 ` Rafael Aquini
2012-08-22 9:33 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-23 2:19 ` Rafael Aquini
2012-08-23 10:01 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-23 12:13 ` Rafael Aquini
2012-08-23 12:34 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-23 13:06 ` Rafael Aquini
2012-08-23 13:53 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-23 15:21 ` Rafael Aquini
2012-08-23 15:54 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-23 16:03 ` Rik van Riel
2012-08-23 16:06 ` Rafael Aquini
2012-08-23 16:10 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-23 16:25 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-23 17:28 ` Rafael Aquini
2012-08-23 17:59 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2012-08-23 23:36 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-24 0:26 ` Rafael Aquini
2012-08-24 0:33 ` Rafael Aquini
2012-08-24 0:38 ` Rafael Aquini
2012-08-24 0:49 ` Rafael Aquini
2012-08-24 3:12 ` Rik van Riel
2012-08-24 8:03 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-21 12:47 ` [PATCH v8 2/5] mm: introduce compaction and migration for ballooned pages Rafael Aquini
2012-08-21 12:47 ` [PATCH v8 3/5] virtio_balloon: introduce migration primitives to balloon pages Rafael Aquini
2012-08-21 14:40 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-21 15:34 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-08-21 15:37 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-08-21 14:57 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-21 12:47 ` [PATCH v8 4/5] mm: introduce putback_movable_pages() Rafael Aquini
2012-08-21 14:42 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-21 12:47 ` [PATCH v8 5/5] mm: add vm event counters for balloon pages compaction Rafael Aquini
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