linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v11 3/7] mm: introduce a common interface for balloon pages mobility

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Message-ID: <20121109162327.GT3886@csn.ul.ie>
Date:	Fri, 9 Nov 2012 16:23:27 +0000
From:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
To:	Rafael Aquini <aquini@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 3/7] mm: introduce a common interface for balloon
 pages mobility

On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 12:53:22PM -0200, Rafael Aquini wrote:
> > <SNIP>
> > If you get the barrier issue sorted out then feel free to add
> > 
> > Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
> > 
> 
> I believe we can drop the barriers stuff, as the locking scheme is now provinding
> enough protection against collisions between isolation page scanning and
> balloon_leak() page release (the major concern that has lead to the barriers
> originally)
> 
> I'll refactor this patch with no barriers and ensure a better commentary on the
> aforementioned locking scheme and resubmit, if it's OK to everyone
> 

Sounds good to me. When they are dropped again feel free to stick my ack
on for the compaction and migration parts. The virtio aspects are up to
someone else :)

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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