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Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <286AC319A985734F985F78AFA26841F73DF71F38@shsmsx102.ccr.corp.intel.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="qusNYtOEDPs1948kwFoAVU2s4iAWJUCqI" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.11 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.26]); Fri, 15 Feb 2019 12:41:06 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --qusNYtOEDPs1948kwFoAVU2s4iAWJUCqI Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="19xowJ6YcPLQjp6lxipmMsFPTwWfNFUy4"; protected-headers="v1" From: Nitesh Narayan Lal To: "Wang, Wei W" , 'David Hildenbrand' , "kvm@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "pbonzini@redhat.com" , "lcapitulino@redhat.com" , "pagupta@redhat.com" , "yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com" , "riel@surriel.com" , "mst@redhat.com" , "dodgen@google.com" , "konrad.wilk@oracle.com" , "dhildenb@redhat.com" , "aarcange@redhat.com" Message-ID: <8c65b48c-6e28-f28b-c8f0-5a2c78cf52a5@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [RFC][Patch v8 0/7] KVM: Guest Free Page Hinting References: <20190204201854.2328-1-nitesh@redhat.com> <286AC319A985734F985F78AFA26841F73DF6B56A@shsmsx102.ccr.corp.intel.com> <286AC319A985734F985F78AFA26841F73DF6F0E3@shsmsx102.ccr.corp.intel.com> <286AC319A985734F985F78AFA26841F73DF71F38@shsmsx102.ccr.corp.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <286AC319A985734F985F78AFA26841F73DF71F38@shsmsx102.ccr.corp.intel.com> --19xowJ6YcPLQjp6lxipmMsFPTwWfNFUy4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Language: en-US On 2/15/19 4:05 AM, Wang, Wei W wrote: > On Thursday, February 14, 2019 5:43 PM, David Hildenbrand wrote: >> Yes indeed, that is the important bit. They must not be put pack to th= e >> buddy before they have been processed by the hypervisor. But as the pa= ges >> are not in the buddy, no one allocating a page will stumble over such = a page >> and try to allocate it. Threads trying to allocate memory will simply = pick >> another buddy page instead of "busy waiting" for that page to be finis= hed >> reporting. > What if a guest thread try to allocate some pages but the buddy cannot = satisfy > because all the pages are isolated? Would it be the same case that the = guest thread > gets blocked by waiting all the isolated pages to get madvised by the h= ost and > returned to the guest buddy, or even worse, some guest threads get kill= ed due to oom? If you are referring to a situation when guest is under memory pressure then isolation request will fail and memory will not be reported/isolated. However, there can always be a corner case and we can definitely take that into consideration later. > > Best, > Wei --=20 Regards Nitesh --19xowJ6YcPLQjp6lxipmMsFPTwWfNFUy4-- --qusNYtOEDPs1948kwFoAVU2s4iAWJUCqI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEkXcoRVGaqvbHPuAGo4ZA3AYyozkFAlxms1cACgkQo4ZA3AYy ozkrkQ/9FFmzLrvp+OyyZFaaOTjfTJ/MaxhVGuBp1mPHgBqn3MT4cUBoeSPSW+hf 3XxgJUBqQF5hIeQpkHUEKFH4felhdZaytFhaicQEFmeB9MgQDJ1+fkN9qHZjheK7 GFDOEUvE70ADLDe65a+EOkXLTDS8urzcqghrToFxHTard9GeFG5o47N9O/9Zz3Ay 8mZ5AXGHmU6jNZX5cIdNn1ydzibcsVdN08gU4y6bumXhUqpNw6lwrfTKXl1BfFb5 8BD9SvtaG0NRcWz7o6dVVkSXHxAZu6ah2NT2wLJUsHWWrCE7LGaaO790Y52bSGdX dqK17G2e+F9nZZnDwXf8c7+z3QmG3TmFADp8MgLfnRWOyhqha6qcOFNEwfmkZOrF H8qURMrVkxz5VQMn2r1i3CoC2NaLGaJpfuIhEmz4P+KdXL2xaIn4RF9uTxG47cG5 f5nl59dFMw/SdayicriqXOfNPMCUQDBGYKJ/We2zwJ8iw8OyCrsO0wb7KP0sK3fx YaAHMj2tk+k5PNqfk3EkoX1Q+OGNw7YxcSkXfD1bAbA9sRkEoeo2ZQkGEI/6E59W PSMOASzP2He+00WZoToVE2jHk5pXTCpebLr7F6NQ/4kpY3HNDvkKGoyU4ECi/zI2 APz8MchKAqKFTY6OuKGNeIyVFiV1UMUpxEAqrzbItqjUkRoglT4= =ESEC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qusNYtOEDPs1948kwFoAVU2s4iAWJUCqI--