David Hildenbrand
2021-Nov-30 14:51 UTC
[PATCH v1 0/2] virtio-mem: prepare for granularity smaller than MAX_ORDER - 1
On 29.11.21 17:47, Zi Yan wrote:> On 26 Nov 2021, at 8:42, David Hildenbrand wrote: > >> The virtio-mem driver currently supports logical hot(un)plug in >> MAX_ORDER - 1 granularity (4MiB on x86-64) or bigger. We want to support >> pageblock granularity (2MiB on x86-64), to make hot(un)plug even more >> flexible, and to improve hotunplug when using ZONE_NORMAL. >> >> With pageblock granularity, we then have a granularity comparable to >> hugepage ballooning. Further, there are ideas to increase MAX_ORDER, so >> we really want to decouple it from MAX_ORDER. >> >> While ZONE_MOVABLE should mostly work already, alloc_contig_range() still >> needs work to be able to properly handle pageblock granularity on >> ZONE_NORMAL. This support is in the works [1], so let's prepare >> virtio-mem for supporting smaller granularity than MAX_ORDER - 1. >> >> Tested with ZONE_MOVABLE after removing the MAX_ORDER - 1 granularity >> limitation in virtio-mem, and using different device block sizes (2MiB, >> 4MiB, 8MiB). >> >> [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211115193725.737539-1-zi.yan at sent.com > > The patchset looks good to me. Thanks. Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy at nvidia.com>Thanks a lot! -- Thanks, David / dhildenb