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From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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	"Jason Gunthorpe" <jgg@ziepe.ca>,
	"Kees Cook" <keescook@chromium.org>,
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	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>,
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	"Stephen Hemminger" <sthemmin@microsoft.com>,
	"Wei Liu" <wei.liu@kernel.org>,
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	"Juergen Gross" <jgross@suse.com>,
	"Stefano Stabellini" <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
	"Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>,
	"Julien Grall" <julien@xen.org>, "Baoquan He" <bhe@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 5/8] mm/memory_hotplug: MEMHP_MERGE_RESOURCE to specify merging of System RAM resources
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 09:25:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e807e983-b10a-a731-4eaa-da208fabda84@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200915024348.GA2685@L-31X9LVDL-1304.local>

On 15.09.20 04:43, Wei Yang wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 12:34:56PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>> Some add_memory*() users add memory in small, contiguous memory blocks.
>> Examples include virtio-mem, hyper-v balloon, and the XEN balloon.
>>
>> This can quickly result in a lot of memory resources, whereby the actual
>> resource boundaries are not of interest (e.g., it might be relevant for
>> DIMMs, exposed via /proc/iomem to user space). We really want to merge
>> added resources in this scenario where possible.
>>
>> Let's provide a flag (MEMHP_MERGE_RESOURCE) to specify that a resource
>> either created within add_memory*() or passed via add_memory_resource()
>> shall be marked mergeable and merged with applicable siblings.
>>
>> To implement that, we need a kernel/resource interface to mark selected
>> System RAM resources mergeable (IORESOURCE_SYSRAM_MERGEABLE) and trigger
>> merging.
>>
>> Note: We really want to merge after the whole operation succeeded, not
>> directly when adding a resource to the resource tree (it would break
>> add_memory_resource() and require splitting resources again when the
>> operation failed - e.g., due to -ENOMEM).
> 
> Oops, the latest version is here.

Yeah, sorry, I dropped the "mm" prefix on the subject of the cover
letter by mistake.

> 
> BTW, I don't see patch 4. Not sure it is junked by my mail system?

At least you're in the CC list below with your old mail address (I
assume you monitor that).

I'll try to use your new address in the future.


-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb



  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-15  7:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-11 10:34 [PATCH v4 0/8] selective merging of system ram resources David Hildenbrand
2020-09-11 10:34 ` [PATCH v4 1/8] kernel/resource: make release_mem_region_adjustable() never fail David Hildenbrand
2020-09-22  6:07   ` [PATCH] kernel/resource: Fix use of ternary condition in release_mem_region_adjustable Nathan Chancellor
2020-09-22  6:22     ` David Hildenbrand
2020-10-09  9:24     ` Wei Yang
2020-09-11 10:34 ` [PATCH v4 2/8] kernel/resource: move and rename IORESOURCE_MEM_DRIVER_MANAGED David Hildenbrand
2020-09-11 10:34 ` [PATCH v4 3/8] mm/memory_hotplug: guard more declarations by CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG David Hildenbrand
2020-09-11 10:34 ` [PATCH v4 4/8] mm/memory_hotplug: prepare passing flags to add_memory() and friends David Hildenbrand
2020-09-11 10:34 ` [PATCH v4 5/8] mm/memory_hotplug: MEMHP_MERGE_RESOURCE to specify merging of System RAM resources David Hildenbrand
2020-09-15  2:43   ` Wei Yang
2020-09-15  7:25     ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
2020-09-16 12:51   ` Wei Yang
2020-09-11 10:34 ` [PATCH v4 6/8] virtio-mem: try to merge system ram resources David Hildenbrand
2020-09-16 12:52   ` Wei Yang
2020-09-11 10:34 ` [PATCH v4 7/8] xen/balloon: " David Hildenbrand
2020-09-16 12:52   ` Wei Yang
2020-09-11 10:34 ` [PATCH v4 8/8] hv_balloon: " David Hildenbrand
2020-09-16 12:52   ` Wei Yang
2020-09-16  7:30 ` [PATCH] kernel/resource: make iomem_resource implicit in release_mem_region_adjustable() David Hildenbrand
2020-09-16 10:02   ` Wei Yang
2020-09-16 10:03     ` David Hildenbrand
2020-09-16 12:10       ` Wei Yang
2020-09-16 12:16         ` David Hildenbrand
2020-09-16 12:40           ` Wei Yang
2020-09-17  8:38   ` Pankaj Gupta

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