From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>
Cc: virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org, kvm list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
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Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 0/8] stg mail -e --version=v9 \
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2019 20:00:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190910180026.GE4023@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190910175213.GD4023@dhcp22.suse.cz>
On Tue 10-09-19 19:52:13, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Tue 10-09-19 09:05:43, Alexander Duyck wrote:
[...]
> > All this is providing is just a report and it is optional if the
> > hypervisor will act on it or not. If the hypervisor takes some sort of
> > action on the page, then the expectation is that the hypervisor will
> > use some sort of mechanism such as a page fault to discover when the
> > page is used again.
>
> OK so the baloon driver is in charge of this metadata and the allocator
> has to live with that. Isn't that a layer violation?
Another thing that is not clear to me is how these marked pages are
different from any other free pages. All of them are unused and you are
losing your metadata as soon as the page gets allocated because the page
changes its owner and the struct page belongs to it.
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-10 18:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-07 17:25 [PATCH v9 0/8] stg mail -e --version=v9 \ Alexander Duyck
2019-09-07 17:25 ` [PATCH v9 1/8] mm: Add per-cpu logic to page shuffling Alexander Duyck
2019-09-09 8:14 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-09-09 15:11 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-09-10 12:11 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-10 22:14 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-09-10 22:11 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-09-09 9:07 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2019-09-09 15:12 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-09-07 17:25 ` [PATCH v9 2/8] mm: Adjust shuffle code to allow for future coalescing Alexander Duyck
2019-09-09 8:19 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-09-09 9:47 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2019-09-09 15:22 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-09-09 15:35 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2019-09-09 15:37 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-09-09 16:43 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-09-09 17:00 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2019-09-10 12:20 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-10 14:48 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-09-07 17:25 ` [PATCH v9 3/8] mm: Move set/get_pcppage_migratetype to mmzone.h Alexander Duyck
2019-09-09 8:22 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-09-09 9:56 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2019-09-09 18:01 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-09-09 18:12 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-09-10 12:23 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-10 14:46 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-09-10 17:45 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-10 20:26 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-09-07 17:25 ` [PATCH v9 4/8] mm: Use zone and order instead of free area in free_list manipulators Alexander Duyck
2019-09-10 12:27 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-07 17:25 ` [PATCH v9 5/8] arm64: Move hugetlb related definitions out of pgtable.h to page-defs.h Alexander Duyck
2019-09-09 8:52 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-09-09 15:27 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-09-17 17:48 ` Will Deacon
2019-09-17 20:07 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-09-07 17:25 ` [PATCH v9 6/8] mm: Introduce Reported pages Alexander Duyck
2019-09-09 14:42 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2019-09-09 16:25 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-09-09 16:33 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2019-09-07 17:26 ` [PATCH v9 7/8] virtio-balloon: Pull page poisoning config out of free page hinting Alexander Duyck
2019-09-09 8:59 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-09-09 15:31 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-09-07 17:26 ` [PATCH v9 8/8] virtio-balloon: Add support for providing unused page reports to host Alexander Duyck
2019-09-07 17:34 ` [PATCH v9 0/8] mm / virtio: Provide support for unused page reporting Alexander Duyck
2019-09-10 12:42 ` [PATCH v9 0/8] stg mail -e --version=v9 \ Michal Hocko
2019-09-10 14:42 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-09-10 14:47 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-10 16:05 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-09-10 16:18 ` [virtio-dev] " Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-09-10 16:22 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-09-11 9:23 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-09-11 9:50 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-09-10 17:52 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-10 18:00 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2019-09-10 20:37 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-09-10 21:23 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-09-11 11:36 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-11 11:47 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-09-11 12:08 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-09-11 12:19 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-11 12:25 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-11 12:42 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-09-11 12:54 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-11 13:03 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-09-11 13:20 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-11 13:51 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-11 16:09 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-09-12 7:16 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-12 7:47 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-09-12 9:26 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-12 12:00 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-09-11 14:03 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-09-11 16:02 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-09-11 13:19 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-09-11 12:55 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-09-11 15:12 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-09-12 9:19 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-12 10:24 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2019-09-12 11:11 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-12 15:42 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-09-12 16:35 ` Mel Gorman
2019-09-12 17:48 ` Alexander Duyck
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