From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
Nitesh Narayan Lal <nitesh@redhat.com>,
kvm list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Yang Zhang <yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com>,
pagupta@redhat.com, Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>,
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
lcapitulino@redhat.com, wei.w.wang@intel.com,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
dan.j.williams@intel.com,
Alexander Duyck <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 11:22:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bc4bb663-585b-bee0-1310-b149382047d0@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKgT0UdAj4Kq8qHKkaiB3z08gCQh-jovNpos45VcGHa_v5aFGg@mail.gmail.com>
On 6/25/19 10:00 AM, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> Basically what we are doing is inflating the memory size we can report
> by inserting voids into the free memory areas. In my mind that matches
> up very well with what "aeration" is. It is similar to balloon in
> functionality, however instead of inflating the balloon we are
> inflating the free_list for higher order free areas by creating voids
> where the madvised pages were.
OK, then call it "free page auto ballooning" or "auto ballooning" or
"allocator ballooning". s390 calls them "unused pages".
Any of those things are clearer and more meaningful than "page aeration"
to me.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-25 18:23 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
2019-06-25 17:00 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-06-25 18:12 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-06-25 18:22 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
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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