Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v15 0/7] mm / virtio: Provide support for free page reporting | From | David Hildenbrand <> | Date | Mon, 16 Dec 2019 13:21:54 +0100 |
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> I found alternative approaches and did away with most of them. What I had > done is replaced the REPORTING_REQUESTED and reference count logic with > the state in order to guarantee that we will make our way through the list > and rearm the reporting thread if the work isn't completed. > > One thing I still think I need to split out based on Mel's comments is the > list rotation and probably the new budget value I added.
Yeah, both probably make sense.
> > As far as performance this new patch set performs better than the old one > did. Most of that is due to the fact that I increased the delay between > passes and dropped any optimizations for the shuffling code.
That's interesting - and good :)
I probably won't have enough time to look into #4 before Christmas - so I might wait for your resend and review after Christmas.
-- Thanks,
David / dhildenb
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