Re: [PATCH v3 16/20] mm/balloon_compaction: list interfaces

[Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>]

at 12:13 PM, Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> wrote:

> Introduce interfaces for ballooning enqueueing and dequeueing of a list
> of pages. These interfaces reduce the overhead of storing and restoring
> IRQs by batching the operations. In addition they do not panic if the
> list of pages is empty.
> 
> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
> Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
> Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
> Reviewed-by: Xavier Deguillard <xdeguillard@vmware.com>
> Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
> ---
> include/linux/balloon_compaction.h |   4 +
> mm/balloon_compaction.c            | 139 +++++++++++++++++++++--------
> 2 files changed, 105 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/balloon_compaction.h b/include/linux/balloon_compaction.h
> index 53051f3d8f25..2c5a8e09e413 100644
> --- a/include/linux/balloon_compaction.h
> +++ b/include/linux/balloon_compaction.h
> @@ -72,6 +72,10 @@ extern struct page *balloon_page_alloc(void);
> extern void balloon_page_enqueue(struct balloon_dev_info *b_dev_info,
> 				 struct page *page);
> extern struct page *balloon_page_dequeue(struct balloon_dev_info *b_dev_info);
> +extern void balloon_page_list_enqueue(struct balloon_dev_info *b_dev_info,
> +				      struct list_head *pages);
> +extern int balloon_page_list_dequeue(struct balloon_dev_info *b_dev_info,
> +				     struct list_head *pages, int n_req_pages);

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Michael, can we get you ack for this patch (as well as 15/20)?

Thanks,
Nadav