Re: [PATCH 00/19] vmw_balloon: compaction, shrinker, 64-bit, etc.

[Nadav Amit]

at 5:27 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 11:38:34PM -0700, Nadav Amit wrote:
>> This patch-set adds the following enhancements to the VMware balloon
>> driver:
>> 
>> 1. Balloon compaction support.
>> 2. Report the number of inflated/deflated ballooned pages through vmstat.
>> 3. Memory shrinker to avoid balloon over-inflation (and OOM).
>> 4. Support VMs with memory limit that is greater than 16TB.
>> 5. Faster and more aggressive inflation.
>> 
>> To support compaction we wish to use the existing infrastructure.
>> However, we need to make slight adaptions for it. We add a new list
>> interface to balloon-compaction, which is more generic and efficient,
>> since it does not require as many IRQ save/restore operations. We leave
>> the old interface that is used by the virtio balloon.
>> 
>> Big parts of this patch-set are cleanup and documentation. Patches 1-13
>> simplify the balloon code, document its behavior and allow the balloon
>> code to run concurrently. The support for concurrency is required for
>> compaction and the shrinker interface.
>> 
>> For documentation we use the kernel-doc format. We are aware that the
>> balloon interface is not public, but following the kernel-doc format may
>> be useful one day.
> 
> kbuild seems to not like this patch series, so I'm going to drop it from
> my queue and wait for a v2 respin before looking at it.

Sure. Iâll send v2 in a day or two.

Nadav