From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>,
nitesh@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, mst@redhat.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com, pagupta@redhat.com, riel@surriel.com,
konrad.wilk@oracle.com, lcapitulino@redhat.com,
wei.w.wang@intel.com, aarcange@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com,
dan.j.williams@intel.com, 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 07:10:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8fea71ba-2464-ead8-3802-2241805283cc@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ff133df4-6291-bece-3d8d-dc3f12f398cf@redhat.com>
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.
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?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-25 14:10 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 [this message]
2019-06-25 17:00 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-06-25 18:12 ` David Hildenbrand
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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