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From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Nitesh Narayan Lal <nitesh@redhat.com>,
	kvm list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Yang Zhang <yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com>,
	pagupta@redhat.com, Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
	lcapitulino@redhat.com, wei.w.wang@intel.com,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	dan.j.williams@intel.com,
	Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/6] mm / virtio: Provide support for paravirtual waste page treatment
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 20:12:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19accd94-7f0b-b940-fee5-5f003f658f1c@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKgT0UdAj4Kq8qHKkaiB3z08gCQh-jovNpos45VcGHa_v5aFGg@mail.gmail.com>

On 25.06.19 19:00, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 7:10 AM Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 6/25/19 12:42 AM, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>> On 20.06.19 00:32, Alexander Duyck wrote:
>>> I still *detest* the terminology, sorry. Can't you come up with a
>>> simpler terminology that makes more sense in the context of operating
>>> systems and pages we want to hint to the hypervisor? (that is the only
>>> use case you are using it for so far)
>>
>> It's a wee bit too cute for my taste as well.  I could probably live
>> with it in the data structures, but having it show up out in places like
>> Kconfig and filenames goes too far.
>>
>> For instance, someone seeing memory_aeration.c will have no concept
>> what's in the file.  Could we call it something like memory_paravirt.c?
>>  Or even mm/paravirt.c.
> 
> Well I couldn't come up with a better explanation of what this was
> doing, also I wanted to avoid mentioning hinting specifically because
> there have already been a few series that have been committed upstream
> that reference this for slightly different purposes such as the one by
> Wei Wang that was doing free memory tracking for migration purposes,
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/7/10/211.

That one we referred to rather as "free page reporting".

> 
> Basically what we are doing is inflating the memory size we can report
> by inserting voids into the free memory areas. In my mind that matches
> up very well with what "aeration" is. It is similar to balloon in
> functionality, however instead of inflating the balloon we are
> inflating the free_list for higher order free areas by creating voids
> where the madvised pages were.
> 
>> Could you talk for a minute about why the straightforward naming like
>> "hinted/unhinted" wasn't used?  Is there something else we could ever
>> use this infrastructure for that is not related to paravirtualized free
>> page hinting?
> 
> I was hoping there might be something in the future that could use the
> infrastructure if it needed to go through and sort out used versus
> unused memory. The way things are designed right now for instance
> there is only really a define that is limiting the lowest order pages
> that are processed. So if we wanted to use this for another purpose we
> could replace the AERATOR_MIN_ORDER define with something that is
> specific to that use case.


I'd still vote to call this "hinting" in some form. Whenever a new use
case eventually pops up, we could generalize this approach. But well,
that's just my opinion :)


-- 

Thanks,

David / dhildenb

  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-25 18:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-19 22:32 [PATCH v1 0/6] mm / virtio: Provide support for paravirtual waste page treatment Alexander Duyck
2019-06-19 22:33 ` [PATCH v1 1/6] mm: Adjust shuffle code to allow for future coalescing Alexander Duyck
2019-06-25  7:55   ` David Hildenbrand
2019-06-28 19:49     ` Alexander Duyck
2019-06-25 18:25   ` Dave Hansen
2019-06-25 18:26   ` Dave Hansen
2019-06-19 22:33 ` [PATCH v1 2/6] mm: Move set/get_pcppage_migratetype to mmzone.h Alexander Duyck
2019-06-25 18:28   ` Dave Hansen
2019-06-28 19:55     ` Alexander Duyck
2019-06-19 22:33 ` [PATCH v1 3/6] mm: Use zone and order instead of free area in free_list manipulators Alexander Duyck
2019-06-25 18:36   ` Dave Hansen
2019-06-19 22:33 ` [PATCH v1 4/6] mm: Introduce "aerated" pages Alexander Duyck
2019-06-25 19:45   ` Dave Hansen
2019-07-08 17:32     ` Alexander Duyck
2019-06-19 22:33 ` [PATCH v1 5/6] mm: Add logic for separating "aerated" pages from "raw" pages Alexander Duyck
2019-06-25 20:24   ` Dave Hansen
2019-07-08 19:02     ` Alexander Duyck
2019-07-08 19:36       ` Dave Hansen
2019-07-08 22:02         ` Alexander Duyck
2019-06-19 22:33 ` [PATCH v1 6/6] virtio-balloon: Add support for aerating memory via hinting Alexander Duyck
2019-07-16  9:55   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-16 14:00     ` Dave Hansen
2019-07-16 14:12       ` David Hildenbrand
2019-07-16 14:17         ` David Hildenbrand
2019-07-16 15:04           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-16 14:41         ` Dave Hansen
2019-07-16 15:01           ` Wang, Wei W
2019-07-16 16:12             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-16 15:02           ` David Hildenbrand
2019-07-16 15:37     ` Alexander Duyck
2019-07-16 16:07       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-16 16:54         ` Alexander Duyck
2019-07-16 17:41           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-16 21:06             ` Alexander Duyck
2019-07-17 10:28               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-17 16:43                 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-07-18  5:13                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-18 15:34                     ` Alexander Duyck
2019-07-18 16:03                       ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-07-18 20:27                         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-18 16:07                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-18 20:29                         ` Alexander Duyck
2019-07-18 20:37                           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-18 20:54                             ` Alexander Duyck
2019-07-18 20:24                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-18 20:34                         ` Alexander Duyck
2019-07-18 20:48                           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-18 21:09                             ` Alexander Duyck
2019-06-19 22:37 ` [PATCH v1 QEMU] QEMU: Provide a interface for hinting based off of the balloon infrastructure Alexander Duyck
2019-06-25  7:42 ` [PATCH v1 0/6] mm / virtio: Provide support for paravirtual waste page treatment David Hildenbrand
2019-06-25 14:10   ` Dave Hansen
2019-06-25 17:00     ` Alexander Duyck
2019-06-25 18:12       ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
2019-06-25 18:22       ` Dave Hansen
2019-07-15  9:41         ` David Hildenbrand
2019-07-15 14:57           ` Alexander Duyck
2019-06-25 16:09   ` Alexander Duyck
2019-06-26  9:01   ` Christophe de Dinechin
2019-06-26  9:12     ` David Hildenbrand

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