From: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Julien Freche <jfreche@vmware.com>,
"VMware, Inc." <pv-drivers@vmware.com>,
Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>, <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 0/4] vmw_balloon: Compaction and shrinker support
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 04:54:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190425115445.20815-1-namit@vmware.com> (raw)
VMware balloon enhancements: adding support for memory compaction,
memory shrinker (to prevent OOM) and splitting of refused pages to
prevent recurring inflations.
Patches 1-2: Support for compaction
Patch 3: Support for memory shrinker - disabled by default
Patch 4: Split refused pages to improve performance
v3->v4:
* "get around to" comment [Michael]
* Put list_add under page lock [Michael]
v2->v3:
* Fixing wrong argument type (int->size_t) [Michael]
* Fixing a comment (it) [Michael]
* Reinstating the BUG_ON() when page is locked [Michael]
v1->v2:
* Return number of pages in list enqueue/dequeue interfaces [Michael]
* Removed first two patches which were already merged
Nadav Amit (4):
mm/balloon_compaction: List interfaces
vmw_balloon: Compaction support
vmw_balloon: Add memory shrinker
vmw_balloon: Split refused pages
drivers/misc/Kconfig | 1 +
drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c | 489 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
include/linux/balloon_compaction.h | 4 +
mm/balloon_compaction.c | 144 ++++++---
4 files changed, 553 insertions(+), 85 deletions(-)
--
2.19.1
next reply other threads:[~2019-04-25 19:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-25 11:54 Nadav Amit [this message]
2019-04-25 11:54 ` [PATCH v4 1/4] mm/balloon_compaction: List interfaces Nadav Amit
2019-04-25 11:54 ` [PATCH v4 2/4] vmw_balloon: Compaction support Nadav Amit
2019-04-25 11:54 ` [PATCH v4 3/4] vmw_balloon: Add memory shrinker Nadav Amit
2019-04-25 11:54 ` [PATCH v4 4/4] vmw_balloon: Split refused pages Nadav Amit
2019-05-04 1:25 ` [PATCH v4 0/4] vmw_balloon: Compaction and shrinker support Nadav Amit
2019-05-17 17:10 ` Nadav Amit
2019-05-17 17:24 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-05-17 17:57 ` Nadav Amit
2019-05-17 18:10 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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