From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pf1-f198.google.com (mail-pf1-f198.google.com [209.85.210.198]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A46BB6B0377 for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2018 12:50:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-pf1-f198.google.com with SMTP id b16-v6so11131066pfi.10 for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2018 09:50:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org. [198.145.29.99]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e3-v6si24572115pgg.530.2018.10.30.09.50.45 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 30 Oct 2018 09:50:46 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 17:51:19 +0100 From: "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/20] vmw_balloon: compaction, shrinker, 64-bit, etc. Message-ID: <20181030165119.GA23017@kroah.com> References: <20180926191336.101885-1-namit@vmware.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Nadav Amit Cc: Arnd Bergmann , Xavier Deguillard , LKML , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Jason Wang , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org" 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 , gregkh@linuxfoundation.org > > Cc: Xavier Deguillard , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Nadav Amit , Michael S. Tsirkin , Jason Wang , 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