Thread (50 messages) 50 messages, 9 authors, 2021-08-09

Re: [RFC PATCH 10/15] virtio: virtio_balloon: use PAGES_PER_SECTION instead of MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES.

From: David Hildenbrand <hidden>
Date: 2021-08-09 07:42:37
Also in: lkml, virtualization

On 05.08.21 21:02, Zi Yan wrote:
From: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>

It keeps the existing behavior when MAX_ORDER grows beyond a section.
... but it breaks/changes existing behavior if MAX_ORDER is smaller than 
a section?
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <redacted>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
---
  drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 2 +-
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
index 47dce91f788c..de8d0355d827 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
  #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_FREE_PAGE_ALLOC_FLAG (__GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN | \
  					     __GFP_NOMEMALLOC)
  /* The order of free page blocks to report to host */
-#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_HINT_BLOCK_ORDER (MAX_ORDER - 1)
+#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_HINT_BLOCK_ORDER (PFN_SECTION_SHIFT - 1)
  /* The size of a free page block in bytes */
  #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_HINT_BLOCK_BYTES \
  	(1 << (VIRTIO_BALLOON_HINT_BLOCK_ORDER + PAGE_SHIFT))

-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb

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