Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Aug 2012 08:14:20 +0900 | From | Minchan Kim <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v7 1/4] mm: introduce compaction and migration for virtio ballooned pages |
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On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 02:55:14PM -0300, 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: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
-- Kind regards, Minchan Kim
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