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Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2019 09:28:38 -0400 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com> To: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>, Nitesh Narayan Lal <nitesh@...hat.com>, kvm list <kvm@...r.kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, lcapitulino@...hat.com, pagupta@...hat.com, wei.w.wang@...el.com, Yang Zhang <yang.zhang.wz@...il.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>, dodgen@...gle.com, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>, dhildenb@...hat.com, Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com> Subject: Re: On guest free page hinting and OOM On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 04:43:03PM -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote: > Yes, but hopefully it should be a small enough amount that nobody will > notice. In many cases devices such as NICs can consume much more than > this regularly for just their Rx buffers and it is not an issue. There > has to be a certain amount of overhead that any given device is > allowed to consume. If we contain the balloon hinting to just 64M that > should be a small enough amount that nobody would notice in practice. I am still inclined to add ability for balloon to exit to host on OOM if any hints are outstanding. If nothing else will be helpful for stats. -- MST
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