linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 4/6] mm: introduce common page state for ballooned memory

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Date:	Fri, 12 Sep 2014 22:42:21 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@...il.com>
Cc:	Konstantin Khlebnikov <k.khlebnikov@...sung.com>,
	Rafael Aquini <aquini@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@...il.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/6] mm: introduce common page state for ballooned
 memory

On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 09:26:49 +0400 Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@...il.com> wrote:

> >
> > Did we really need to put the BalloonPages count into per-zone vmstat,
> > global vmstat and /proc/meminfo?  Seems a bit overkillish - why so
> > important?
> 
> Balloon grabs random pages, their distribution among numa nodes might
> be important.
> But I know nobody who uses numa-aware vm together with ballooning.
> 
> Probably it's better to drop per-zone vmstat and line from meminfo,
> global vmstat counter should be enough.

Yes, the less we add the better - we can always add stuff later if
there is a demonstrated need.

> >
> > Consuming another page flag is a big deal.  We keep on nearly running
> > out and one day we'll run out for real.  page-flags-layout.h is
> > incomprehensible.  How many flags do we have left (worst-case) with this
> > change?  Is there no other way?  Needs extraordinary justification,
> > please.
> 
> PageBalloon is not a page flags, it's like PageBuddy -- special state
> of _mapcount (-256 in this case).
> The same was in v1 and is written in the comment above.

oop sorry, I got confused about KPF_BALLOON.
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