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authorRafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>2012-12-11 16:02:38 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-12-11 17:22:26 -0800
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mm: introduce a common interface for balloon pages mobility
Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used by the guest workload. This patch introduces a common interface to help a balloon driver on making its page set movable to compaction, and thus allowing the system to better leverage the compation efforts on memory defragmentation. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_PREP, s/__balloon_page_flags/page_flags_cleared/, small cleanups] [rientjes@google.com: allow balloon compaction for any system with memory compaction enabled, which is the defconfig] Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -188,6 +188,21 @@ config SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS
default "4"
#
+# support for memory balloon compaction
+config BALLOON_COMPACTION
+ bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration"
+ def_bool y
+ depends on COMPACTION && VIRTIO_BALLOON
+ help
+ Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce
+ significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be
+ used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated
+ with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used
+ by the guest workload. Allowing the compaction & migration for memory
+ pages enlisted as being part of memory balloon devices avoids the
+ scenario aforementioned and helps improving memory defragmentation.
+
+#
# support for memory compaction
config COMPACTION
bool "Allow for memory compaction"