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SubjectRe: [RFC][Patch v8 0/7] KVM: Guest Free Page Hinting
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>>>> Also one reason why I am not a fan of working with anything less than
>>>> PMD order is because there have been issues in the past with false
>>>> memory leaks being created when hints were provided on THP pages that
>>>> essentially fragmented them. I guess hugepaged went through and
>>>> started trying to reassemble the huge pages and as a result there have
>>>> been apps that ended up consuming more memory than they would have
>>>> otherwise since they were using fragments of THP pages after doing an
>>>> MADV_DONTNEED on sections of the page.
>>>
>>> I understand your concerns, but we should not let bugs in the hypervisor
>>> dictate the design. Bugs are there to be fixed. Interesting read,
>>> though, thanks!
>>
>> Right but if we break up a huge page we are then creating
>> more work for hypervisor to reassemble it.
>
> Yes, but the hypervisor can decide what to do. E.g. on s390x there are
> no THP, so nothing to break up.

To clarify as that might be confusing: No THP in a KVM guest mapping for
now.

>
> It is all very complicated :)
>


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Thanks,

David / dhildenb

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