linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] mm/balloon

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Message-ID: <679D6F11-07D7-4227-9D02-41F9F8901E61@vmware.com>
Date:   Mon, 8 Apr 2019 17:35:00 +0000
From:   Nadav Amit <namit@...are.com>
To:     "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
CC:     Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
        "virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org" 
        <virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Linux List Kernel Mailing <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Pv-drivers <Pv-drivers@...are.com>,
        Julien Freche <jfreche@...are.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] mm/balloon_compaction: list interfaces

> On Mar 27, 2019, at 6:07 PM, Nadav Amit <namit@...are.com> wrote:
> 
> Introduce interfaces for ballooning enqueueing and dequeueing of a list
> of pages. These interfaces reduce the overhead of storing and restoring
> IRQs by batching the operations. In addition they do not panic if the
> list of pages is empty.
> 
> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>

Michael, may I ping for your ack?