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Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 14:01:52 +0930 From: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> To: Rafael Aquini <aquini@...hat.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>, Rafael Aquini <aquini@...hat.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] make balloon pages movable by compaction On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 18:49:38 -0300, Rafael Aquini <aquini@...hat.com> wrote: > This patchset follows the main idea discussed at 2012 LSFMMS section: > "Ballooning for transparent huge pages" -- http://lwn.net/Articles/490114/ > > to introduce the required changes to the virtio_balloon driver, as well as > changes to the core compaction & migration bits, in order to allow > memory balloon pages become movable within a guest. > > Rafael Aquini (4): > mm: introduce compaction and migration for virtio ballooned pages > virtio_balloon: handle concurrent accesses to virtio_balloon struct > elements > virtio_balloon: introduce migration primitives to balloon pages > mm: add vm event counters for balloon pages compaction > > drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 142 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- > include/linux/mm.h | 16 +++++ > include/linux/virtio_balloon.h | 6 ++ > include/linux/vm_event_item.h | 2 + > mm/compaction.c | 111 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------ > mm/migrate.c | 32 ++++++++- > mm/vmstat.c | 4 ++ > 7 files changed, 280 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-) > > > V2: address Mel Gorman's review comments If Mel is happy, I am happy. Seems sensible that the virtio_baloon changes go in at the same time as the mm changes, so: Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> Cheers, Rusty. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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