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Subject[PATCH v1 0/2] virtio-mem: prepare for granularity smaller than MAX_ORDER - 1
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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@sent.com

Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Cc: Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Ren <renzhengeek@gmail.com>
Cc: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
Cc: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org

David Hildenbrand (2):
virtio-mem: prepare page onlining code for granularity smaller than
MAX_ORDER - 1
virtio-mem: prepare fake page onlining code for granularity smaller
than MAX_ORDER - 1

drivers/virtio/virtio_mem.c | 110 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 74 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)

--
2.31.1

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