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SubjectRe: [PATCH v7 1/4] mm: introduce compaction and migration for virtio ballooned pages
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>

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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim


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