Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 08 Aug 2012 21:37:43 -0400 | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v6 1/3] mm: introduce compaction and migration for virtio ballooned pages |
| |
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<aquini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
-- All rights reversed
| |