From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
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mhocko@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
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cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com, mgorman@techsingularity.net,
aarcange@redhat.com, amit.shah@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com,
liliang.opensource@gmail.com, yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com,
quan.xu@aliyun.com, nilal@redhat.com, riel@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v19 3/7] xbitmap: add more operations
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 04:37:01 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171214123701.GA30288@bombadil.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5A311C5E.7000304@intel.com>
On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 08:26:06PM +0800, Wei Wang wrote:
> On 12/12/2017 09:20 PM, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> > Can you eliminate exception path and fold all xbitmap patches into one, and
> > post only one xbitmap patch without virtio-baloon changes? If exception path
> > is valuable, you can add exception path after minimum version is merged.
> > This series is too difficult for me to close corner cases.
>
> That exception path is claimed to save memory, and I don't have a strong
> reason to remove that part.
> Matthew, could we get your feedback on this?
Sure. This code is derived from the IDA code in lib/idr.c. Eventually,
I intend to reunite them. For IDA, it clearly makes sense; the first 62
entries result in allocating no memory at all, which is going to be 99%
of users. After that, we allocate 128 bytes which will serve the first
1024 users.
The xbitmap, as used by Wei's patches here is going to be used somewhat
differently from that. I understand why Tetsuo wants the exceptional
path removed; I'm not sure the gains will be as important. But if we're
going to rebuild the IDA on top of the xbitmap, we need to keep them.
I really want to pay more attention to this, but I need to focus on
getting the XArray finished.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-14 12:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-12 11:55 [PATCH v19 0/7] Virtio-balloon Enhancement Wei Wang
2017-12-12 11:55 ` [PATCH v19 1/7] xbitmap: Introduce xbitmap Wei Wang
2017-12-12 12:53 ` Philippe Ombredanne
2017-12-15 11:05 ` kbuild test robot
2017-12-15 13:24 ` Matthew Wilcox
2017-12-16 10:10 ` Wei Wang
2017-12-12 11:55 ` [PATCH v19 2/7] xbitmap: potential improvement Wei Wang
2017-12-15 3:07 ` kbuild test robot
2017-12-12 11:55 ` [PATCH v19 3/7] xbitmap: add more operations Wei Wang
2017-12-12 13:20 ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-12-13 12:26 ` Wei Wang
2017-12-13 14:16 ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-12-14 3:47 ` Wei Wang
2017-12-14 11:47 ` [virtio-dev] " Wei Wang
2017-12-14 16:29 ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-12-14 18:12 ` Matthew Wilcox
2017-12-15 16:21 ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-12-15 18:26 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-12-16 4:31 ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-12-16 5:05 ` Matthew Wilcox
2017-12-16 5:57 ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-12-15 18:49 ` Matthew Wilcox
2017-12-15 19:22 ` Matthew Wilcox
2017-12-17 13:47 ` Wang, Wei W
2017-12-17 22:18 ` Matthew Wilcox
2017-12-18 2:33 ` Wei Wang
2017-12-18 2:59 ` Matthew Wilcox
2017-12-16 10:14 ` Wei Wang
2017-12-14 12:37 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2017-12-15 18:42 ` Matthew Wilcox
2017-12-16 10:12 ` Wei Wang
2017-12-16 11:28 ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-12-17 5:24 ` Wei Wang
2017-12-17 10:21 ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-12-17 11:50 ` Wang, Wei W
2017-12-17 15:16 ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-12-18 8:05 ` Wei Wang
2017-12-12 11:55 ` [PATCH v19 4/7] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_SG Wei Wang
2017-12-12 11:55 ` [PATCH v19 5/7] mm: support reporting free page blocks Wei Wang
2017-12-12 11:55 ` [PATCH v19 6/7] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_VQ Wei Wang
2017-12-12 11:55 ` [PATCH v19 7/7] virtio-balloon: don't report free pages when page poisoning is enabled Wei Wang
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