mm: introduce a common interface for balloon pages mobility
Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce significantly
the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be used within a guest,
thus imposing performance penalties associated with the reduced number of
transparent huge pages that could be used by the guest workload.
This patch introduces a common interface to help a balloon driver on
making its page set movable to compaction, and thus allowing the system
to better leverage the compation efforts on memory defragmentation.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_PREP, s/__balloon_page_flags/page_flags_cleared/, small cleanups]
[rientjes@google.com: allow balloon compaction for any system with memory compaction enabled, which is the defconfig]
Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index a3f8ddd..e6651c5 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -188,6 +188,21 @@
default "4"
#
+# support for memory balloon compaction
+config BALLOON_COMPACTION
+ bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration"
+ def_bool y
+ depends on COMPACTION && VIRTIO_BALLOON
+ help
+ Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce
+ significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be
+ used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated
+ with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used
+ by the guest workload. Allowing the compaction & migration for memory
+ pages enlisted as being part of memory balloon devices avoids the
+ scenario aforementioned and helps improving memory defragmentation.
+
+#
# support for memory compaction
config COMPACTION
bool "Allow for memory compaction"