Messages in this thread | | | From | "Wang, Wei W" <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH RFC] virtio_balloon: conservative balloon page shrinking | Date | Thu, 6 Feb 2020 09:27:04 +0000 |
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On Thursday, February 6, 2020 5:04 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > virtio_balloon_shrinker_count(struct shrinker *shrinker, > > struct virtio_balloon, shrinker); > > unsigned long count; > > > > - count = vb->num_pages / VIRTIO_BALLOON_PAGES_PER_PAGE; > > + if (conservative_shrinker && global_node_page_state(NR_FILE_PAGES)) > > I'd rather have an API for that in mm/. In particular, do we want other > shrinkers to run, not just pagecache? To pick an example I'm familiar > with, kvm mmu cache for nested virt?
We could make it extendable:
#define BALLOON_SHRINKER_AFTER_PAGE_CACHE (1 << 0) #define BALLOON_SHRINKER_AFTER_KVM_MMU_CACHE (1 << 1) ...
uint64_t conservative_shrinker; if ((conservative_shrinker | BALLOON_SHRINKER_AFTER_PAGE_CACHE) && global_node_page_state(NR_FILE_PAGES)) return 0;
For now, we probably only need BALLOON_SHRINKER_AFTER_PAGE_CACHE.
Best, Wei
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