at 11:15 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 10:30:06AM -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. > > I applied the first 16 patches. Please fix up 17 and resend. Thanks. I will update it and resend later today. Regards, Nadav
