linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: don't zero ballooned pages

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Date:   Mon, 31 Jul 2017 08:55:09 +0200
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@...el.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, mst@...hat.com,
        mawilcox@...rosoft.com, dave.hansen@...el.com,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, zhenwei.pi@...runcloud.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: don't zero ballooned pages

On Mon 31-07-17 12:13:33, Wei Wang wrote:
> Ballooned pages will be marked as MADV_DONTNEED by the hypervisor and
> shouldn't be given to the host ksmd to scan.

Could you point me where this MADV_DONTNEED is done, please?

> Therefore, it is not
> necessary to zero ballooned pages, which is very time consuming when
> the page amount is large. The ongoing fast balloon tests show that the
> time to balloon 7G pages is increased from ~491ms to 2.8 seconds with
> __GFP_ZERO added. So, this patch removes the flag.

Please make it obvious that this is a revert of bb01b64cfab7
("mm/balloon_compaction.c: enqueue zero page to balloon device").

> Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@...el.com>
> ---
>  mm/balloon_compaction.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/balloon_compaction.c b/mm/balloon_compaction.c
> index 9075aa5..b06d9fe 100644
> --- a/mm/balloon_compaction.c
> +++ b/mm/balloon_compaction.c
> @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ struct page *balloon_page_enqueue(struct balloon_dev_info *b_dev_info)
>  {
>  	unsigned long flags;
>  	struct page *page = alloc_page(balloon_mapping_gfp_mask() |
> -				__GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_ZERO);
> +				       __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NORETRY);
>  	if (!page)
>  		return NULL;
>  
> -- 
> 2.7.4
> 

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs