From: "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Xavier Deguillard <xdeguillard@vmware.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
"virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org"
<virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/20] vmw_balloon: compaction, shrinker, 64-bit, etc.
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 17:51:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181030165119.GA23017@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1B69BF2-458D-435C-8065-6944111A9EC6@vmware.com>
On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 04:32:22PM +0000, Nadav Amit wrote:
> 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 didna??t apply patches 17-20. Any reason for that?
I have no idea, that was a few thousand patches reviewed ago...
Did I not say anything about this when I applied them?
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-30 16:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-26 19:13 Nadav Amit
2018-09-26 19:13 ` [PATCH v3 15/20] mm/balloon_compaction: suppress allocation warnings Nadav Amit
2018-09-26 19:13 ` [PATCH v3 16/20] mm/balloon_compaction: list interfaces Nadav Amit
2018-09-28 19:48 ` Nadav Amit
2018-10-17 2:42 ` Nadav Amit
2018-10-30 16:32 ` [PATCH v3 00/20] vmw_balloon: compaction, shrinker, 64-bit, etc Nadav Amit
2018-10-30 16:51 ` gregkh [this message]
2018-10-30 16:52 ` Nadav Amit
2018-10-30 17:05 ` gregkh
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