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Subject: Re: [PATCH v35 1/5] mm: support to get hints of free page blocks
On 07/12/2018 10:30 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 7:17 PM Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com> wrote:Would it be better to remove __GFP_THISNODE? We actually want to get all the guest free pages (from all the nodes).Maybe. Or maybe it would be better to have the memory balloon logic be per-node? Maybe you don't want to remove too much memory from one node? I think it's one of those "play with it" things. I don't think that's the big issue, actually. I think the real issue is how to react quickly and gracefully to "oops, I'm trying to give memory away, but now the guest wants it back" while you're in the middle of trying to create that 2TB list of pages.
OK. virtio-balloon has already registered an oom notifier (virtballoon_oom_notify). I plan to add some control there. If oom happens,
- stop the page allocation; - immediately give back the allocated pages to mm. Best, Wei
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