Re: [RFC PATCH 3/4] mm: add sys fs configuration for page reporting

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On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 11:02 PM Alexander Duyck
<alexander.h.duyck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 4/12/2020 2:09 AM, liliangleo wrote:
> > This patch add 'delay_millisecs', 'mini_order', 'batch_size',
> > in '/sys/kernel/mm/page_report/'. Usage:
> >
> > "delay_millisecs":
> > Time delay interval between page free and work start to run.
> >
> > "mini_order":
> > Only pages with order equal or greater than mini_order will be
> > reported.
> >
> > "batch_size"
> > Wake up the worker only when free pages total size are greater
> > than 'batch_size'.
> >
> > Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: liliangleo <liliangleo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I am not really a fan of making these configurable globally. Especially
> since the existing virtio-balloon is relying on some of this being
> configured the way it is.
>
> It would make much more sense to push these configuration options out to
> the registration interface so that the thing that is registering for
> page reporting can configure them when it is registered.
>

Agree, that's better.  Thanks!




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