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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>, Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com>
Cc: virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, david@redhat.com,
	cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	mgorman@techsingularity.net, aarcange@redhat.com,
	amit.shah@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com,
	liliang.opensource@gmail.com,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 3/6] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_CHUNKS
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 10:59:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fb67359c-3d19-f67f-ec47-3cf868b8d9e8@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170613200049-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org>

On 06/13/2017 10:56 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>> +/* The size of one page_bmap used to record inflated/deflated pages. */
>> +#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_PAGE_BMAP_SIZE	(8 * PAGE_SIZE)
> At this size, you probably want alloc_pages to avoid kmalloc
> overhead.

For slub, at least, kmalloc() just calls alloc_pages() basically
directly.  There's virtually no overhead.



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  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-13 17:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-09 10:41 [PATCH v11 0/6] Virtio-balloon Enhancement Wei Wang
2017-06-09 10:41 ` [PATCH v11 1/6] virtio-balloon: deflate via a page list Wei Wang
2017-06-09 10:41 ` [PATCH v11 2/6] virtio-balloon: coding format cleanup Wei Wang
2017-06-09 10:41 ` [PATCH v11 3/6] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_CHUNKS Wei Wang
2017-06-13 17:56   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-06-13 17:59     ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2017-06-13 18:55       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-06-15  8:10     ` [virtio-dev] " Wei Wang
2017-06-16  3:19       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-06-28 15:04       ` Matthew Wilcox
2017-07-12 13:05         ` Wei Wang
2017-06-09 10:41 ` [PATCH v11 4/6] mm: function to offer a page block on the free list Wei Wang
2017-06-12 14:10   ` Dave Hansen
2017-06-12 16:28     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-06-12 16:42       ` Dave Hansen
2017-06-12 20:34         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-06-12 20:54           ` Dave Hansen
2017-06-13  2:56             ` Wei Wang
2017-06-20 16:44     ` Rik van Riel
2017-06-20 16:49       ` David Hildenbrand
2017-06-20 17:29         ` Rik van Riel
2017-06-20 18:26           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-06-20 19:51             ` Rik van Riel
2017-06-21 12:41               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-06-21  8:38           ` [Qemu-devel] " Wei Wang
2017-06-20 18:17         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-06-20 18:54           ` David Hildenbrand
2017-06-20 18:56             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-06-20 19:01               ` David Hildenbrand
2017-06-21 12:56         ` Christian Borntraeger
2017-06-21 13:47           ` David Hildenbrand
2017-06-09 10:41 ` [PATCH v11 5/6] mm: export symbol of next_zone and first_online_pgdat Wei Wang
2017-06-09 10:41 ` [PATCH v11 6/6] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_CMD_VQ Wei Wang
2017-06-12 14:07   ` Dave Hansen
2017-06-13 10:17     ` Wei Wang
2017-06-20 16:18   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-06-21  3:28     ` [virtio-dev] " Wei Wang
2017-06-21 12:28       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-06-22  8:40         ` Wei Wang
2017-06-28 15:01           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-07-12 12:57             ` Wei Wang
2017-06-09 11:18 ` [PATCH v11 0/6] Virtio-balloon Enhancement Wang, Wei W

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