Messages in this thread | | | From | Nadav Amit <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 00/20] vmw_balloon: compaction, shrinker, 64-bit, etc. | Date | Tue, 30 Oct 2018 16:32:22 +0000 |
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From: Nadav Amit Sent: September 26, 2018 at 7:13:16 PM GMT > To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org > Cc: Xavier Deguillard <xdeguillard@vmware.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>, Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org>, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org > Subject: [PATCH v3 00/20] vmw_balloon: compaction, shrinker, 64-bit, etc. > > > This patch-set adds the following enhancements to the VMware balloon > driver: > > 1. Balloon compaction support. > 2. Report the number of inflated/deflated ballooned pages through vmstat. > 3. Memory shrinker to avoid balloon over-inflation (and OOM). > 4. Support VMs with memory limit that is greater than 16TB. > 5. Faster and more aggressive inflation. > > To support compaction we wish to use the existing infrastructure. > However, we need to make slight adaptions for it. We add a new list > interface to balloon-compaction, which is more generic and efficient, > since it does not require as many IRQ save/restore operations. We leave > the old interface that is used by the virtio balloon. > > Big parts of this patch-set are cleanup and documentation. Patches 1-13 > simplify the balloon code, document its behavior and allow the balloon > code to run concurrently. The support for concurrency is required for > compaction and the shrinker interface. > > For documentation we use the kernel-doc format. We are aware that the > balloon interface is not public, but following the kernel-doc format may > be useful one day. > > v2->v3: * Moving the balloon magic-number out of uapi (Greg) > > v1->v2: * Fix build error when THP is off (kbuild) > * Fix build error on i386 (kbuild) >
Greg,
I realize you didn’t apply patches 17-20. Any reason for that?
Thanks, Nadav
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