Re: [PATCHv1 5/8] xen/balloon: rationalize memory hotplug stats

From: Daniel Kiper
Date: Thu Jun 25 2015 - 14:39:01 EST


On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 06:11:00PM +0100, David Vrabel wrote:
> The stats used for memory hotplug make no sense and are fiddled with
> in odd ways. Remove them and introduce total_pages to track the total
> number of pages (both populated and unpopulated) including those within
> hotplugged regions (note that this includes not yet onlined pages).
>
> This will be useful when deciding whether additional memory needs to be
> hotplugged.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx>

Nice optimization! I suppose that it is remnant from very early
version of memory hotplug. Probably after a few patch series
iterations hotplug_pages and balloon_hotplug lost their meaning
and I did not catch it. Additionally, as I can see there is not
any consumer for total_pages here. So, I think that we can go
further and remove this obfuscated code at all.

Daniel
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