Re: [PATCH v8 1/5] mm: introduce a common interface for balloon pages mobility
From: Rik van Riel <hidden>
Date: 2012-08-24 03:12:49
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From: Rik van Riel <hidden>
Date: 2012-08-24 03:12:49
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On 08/23/2012 07:36 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
---> virtio-balloon: replace page->lru list with page->private. The point is to free up page->lru for use by compaction. Warning: completely untested, will provide tested version if we agree on this direction.
A singly linked list is not going to work for page migration, which needs to get pages that might be in the middle of the balloon list. -- All rights reversed -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@kvack.org"> email@kvack.org </a>