Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 01 Aug 2012 16:53:47 -0400 | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] mm: introduce compaction and migration for virtio ballooned pages |
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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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