Re: [PATCH v4 4/6] mm: Introduce Reported pages

2019-08-08 Thread Alexander Duyck
On Thu, 2019-08-08 at 09:45 -0400, Nitesh Narayan Lal wrote: > On 8/7/19 6:42 PM, Alexander Duyck wrote: > > From: Alexander Duyck > > > > In order to pave the way for free page reporting in virtualized > > environments we will need a way to get pages out of the free lists and > > identify those

Re: [PATCH v4 4/6] mm: Introduce Reported pages

2019-08-08 Thread Nitesh Narayan Lal
On 8/7/19 6:42 PM, Alexander Duyck wrote: > From: Alexander Duyck > > In order to pave the way for free page reporting in virtualized > environments we will need a way to get pages out of the free lists and > identify those pages after they have been returned. To accomplish this, > this patch

[PATCH v4 4/6] mm: Introduce Reported pages

2019-08-07 Thread Alexander Duyck
From: Alexander Duyck In order to pave the way for free page reporting in virtualized environments we will need a way to get pages out of the free lists and identify those pages after they have been returned. To accomplish this, this patch adds the concept of a Reported Buddy, which is