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Re: [PATCH v13 4/5] mm: support reporting free page blocks

From Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v13 4/5] mm: support reporting free page blocks
Date 2017-08-04 10:00 +0200
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On Fri 04-08-17 00:02:01, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 03:20:09PM +0000, Wang, Wei W wrote:
> > On Thursday, August 3, 2017 9:51 PM, Michal Hocko: 
> > > As I've said earlier. Start simple optimize incrementally with some numbers to
> > > justify a more subtle code.
> > > --
> > 
> > OK. Let's start with the simple implementation as you suggested.
> > 
> > Best,
> > Wei
> 
> The tricky part is when you need to drop the lock and
> then restart because the device is busy. Would it maybe
> make sense to rotate the list so that new head
> will consist of pages not yet sent to device?

No, I this should be strictly non-modifying API.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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[PATCH v13 0/5] Virtio-balloon Enhancement Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com> - 2017-08-03 08:50 +0200
  [PATCH v13 3/5] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_SG Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com> - 2017-08-03 09:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v13 3/5] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_SG "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2017-08-03 16:30 +0200
      RE: [PATCH v13 3/5] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_SG "Wang, Wei W" <wei.w.wang@intel.com> - 2017-08-03 17:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v13 3/5] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_SG "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2017-08-03 18:00 +0200
  [PATCH v13 4/5] mm: support reporting free page blocks Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com> - 2017-08-03 09:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v13 4/5] mm: support reporting free page blocks Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-08-03 11:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v13 4/5] mm: support reporting free page blocks Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com> - 2017-08-03 12:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v13 4/5] mm: support reporting free page blocks Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-08-03 12:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v13 4/5] mm: support reporting free page blocks Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com> - 2017-08-03 13:30 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v13 4/5] mm: support reporting free page blocks Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-08-03 13:30 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v13 4/5] mm: support reporting free page blocks Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com> - 2017-08-03 14:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v13 4/5] mm: support reporting free page blocks Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-08-03 14:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v13 4/5] mm: support reporting free page blocks Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com> - 2017-08-03 15:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v13 4/5] mm: support reporting free page blocks Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-08-03 16:00 +0200
                RE: [PATCH v13 4/5] mm: support reporting free page blocks "Wang, Wei W" <wei.w.wang@intel.com> - 2017-08-03 17:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v13 4/5] mm: support reporting free page blocks "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2017-08-03 23:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v13 4/5] mm: support reporting free page blocks Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-08-04 10:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v13 4/5] mm: support reporting free page blocks Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com> - 2017-08-04 10:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v13 4/5] mm: support reporting free page blocks Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-08-04 10:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v13 4/5] mm: support reporting free page blocks Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com> - 2017-08-04 11:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v13 4/5] mm: support reporting free page blocks Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com> - 2017-08-08 08:20 +0200
        Re: [virtio-dev] Re: [PATCH v13 4/5] mm: support reporting free page  blocks Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com> - 2017-08-08 08:40 +0200
          Re: [virtio-dev] Re: [PATCH v13 4/5] mm: support reporting free page  blocks Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-08-10 09:10 +0200
            Re: [virtio-dev] Re: [PATCH v13 4/5] mm: support reporting free page  blocks Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com> - 2017-08-10 09:40 +0200
              Re: [virtio-dev] Re: [PATCH v13 4/5] mm: support reporting free page  blocks Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-08-10 10:00 +0200

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