From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com> To: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>, virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org, kvm list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>, linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>, Yang Zhang <yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com>, Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@redhat.com>, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>, Nitesh Narayan Lal <nitesh@redhat.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>, lcapitulino@redhat.com, "Wang, Wei W" <wei.w.wang@intel.com>, Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>, Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 0/6] mm / virtio: Provide support for unused page reporting Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 10:07:11 -0700 [thread overview] Message-ID: <CAKgT0UedoNBk3cp64SpCzXJqjtqBWZQSB7QzF7R_jhTDXbzNPg@mail.gmail.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <d2a7acdd-3bb9-05c9-42d0-70a500801cd6@redhat.com> On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 8:32 AM David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> wrote: > > On 24.09.19 16:23, Michal Hocko wrote: > > On Wed 18-09-19 10:52:25, Alexander Duyck wrote: > > [...] > >> In order to try and keep the time needed to find a non-reported page to > >> a minimum we maintain a "reported_boundary" pointer. This pointer is used > >> by the get_unreported_pages iterator to determine at what point it should > >> resume searching for non-reported pages. In order to guarantee pages do > >> not get past the scan I have modified add_to_free_list_tail so that it > >> will not insert pages behind the reported_boundary. > >> > >> If another process needs to perform a massive manipulation of the free > >> list, such as compaction, it can either reset a given individual boundary > >> which will push the boundary back to the list_head, or it can clear the > >> bit indicating the zone is actively processing which will result in the > >> reporting process resetting all of the boundaries for a given zone. > > > > Is this any different from the previous version? The last review > > feedback (both from me and Mel) was that we are not happy to have an > > externally imposed constrains on how the page allocator is supposed to > > maintain its free lists. > > > > If this is really the only way to go forward then I would like to hear > > very convincing arguments about other approaches not being feasible. > > Adding to what Alexander said, I don't consider the other approaches > (especially the bitmap-based approach Nitesh is currently working on) > infeasible. There might be more rough edges (e.g., sparse zones) and > eventually sometimes a little more work to be done, but definitely > feasible. Incorporating stuff into the buddy might make some tasks > (e.g., identify free pages) more efficient. > > I still somewhat like the idea of capturing hints of free pages (in > whatever data structure) and then going over the hints, seeing if the > pages are still free. Then only temporarily isolating the still-free > pages, reporting them, and un-isolating them after they were reported. I > like the idea that the pages are not fake-allocated but only temporarily > blocked. That works nicely e.g., with the movable zone (contain only > movable data). One other change in this patch set is that I split the headers so that there is an internal header that resides in the mm tree and an external one that provides the page reporting device structure and the register/unregister functions. All that virtio-balloon knows is that it is registering a notifier and will be called with scatter gather lists for memory that is not currently in use by the kernel. It has no visibility into the internal free_areas or the current state of the buddy allocator. Rather than having two blocks that are both trying to maintain that state, I have consolidated it all into the buddy allocator with page reporting. > But anyhow, after decades of people working on free page > hinting/reporting, I am happy with anything that gets accepted upstream :D Agreed. After working on this for 9 months I would be happy to get something upstream that addresses this. - Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-24 17:07 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2019-09-18 17:52 Alexander Duyck 2019-09-18 17:52 ` [PATCH v10 1/6] mm: Adjust shuffle code to allow for future coalescing Alexander Duyck 2019-09-18 17:52 ` [PATCH v10 2/6] mm: Use zone and order instead of free area in free_list manipulators Alexander Duyck 2019-09-18 17:52 ` [PATCH v10 3/6] mm: Introduce Reported pages Alexander Duyck 2019-09-21 15:25 ` [mm] 0f5b256b2c: will-it-scale.per_process_ops -1.2% regression kernel test robot 2019-09-23 8:15 ` [PATCH v10 3/6] mm: Introduce Reported pages Michael S. Tsirkin 2019-09-23 14:50 ` Alexander Duyck 2019-09-23 15:00 ` Michael S. Tsirkin 2019-09-23 15:28 ` Alexander Duyck 2019-09-23 15:37 ` Michael S. Tsirkin 2019-09-23 15:45 ` David Hildenbrand 2019-09-23 15:47 ` David Hildenbrand 2019-09-23 15:50 ` Michael S. Tsirkin 2019-09-23 15:53 ` David Hildenbrand 2019-09-23 15:49 ` Michael S. Tsirkin 2019-09-23 16:39 ` Alexander Duyck 2019-09-18 17:52 ` [PATCH v10 4/6] mm: Add device side and notifier for unused page reporting Alexander Duyck 2019-09-18 17:53 ` [PATCH v10 5/6] virtio-balloon: Pull page poisoning config out of free page hinting Alexander Duyck 2019-09-18 17:58 ` Michael S. Tsirkin 2019-09-18 18:05 ` Alexander Duyck 2019-09-18 17:53 ` [PATCH v10 6/6] virtio-balloon: Add support for providing unused page reports to host Alexander Duyck 2019-09-18 17:53 ` [PATCH v10 QEMU 1/3] virtio-ballon: Implement support for page poison tracking feature Alexander Duyck 2019-09-18 17:53 ` [PATCH v10 QEMU 2/3] virtio-balloon: Add bit to notify guest of unused page reporting Alexander Duyck 2019-09-18 17:53 ` [PATCH v10 QEMU 3/3] virtio-balloon: Provide a interface for " Alexander Duyck 2019-09-24 14:23 ` [PATCH v10 0/6] mm / virtio: Provide support " Michal Hocko 2019-09-24 15:20 ` Alexander Duyck 2019-09-26 12:22 ` Michal Hocko 2019-09-26 15:13 ` Alexander Duyck 2019-09-24 15:32 ` David Hildenbrand 2019-09-24 15:51 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal 2019-09-24 17:07 ` Alexander Duyck [this message] 2019-09-24 17:28 ` David Hildenbrand
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