Re: On guest free page hinting and OOM

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Tue Apr 02 2019 - 15:49:07 EST


On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 08:21:30PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> The other extreme is a system that barely frees (MAX_ORDER - X) pages,
> however your thread will waste cycles scanning for such.

I don't think we need to scan as such. An arch hook
that queues a job to a wq only when there's work to
do will fix the issue, right?

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