Re: [PATCH v35 1/5] mm: support to get hints of free page blocks

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 7:17 PM Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Would it be better to remove __GFP_THISNODE? We actually want to get all
> the guest free pages (from all the nodes).

Maybe. Or maybe it would be better to have the memory balloon logic be
per-node? Maybe you don't want to remove too much memory from one
node? I think it's one of those "play with it" things.

I don't think that's the big issue, actually. I think the real issue
is how to react quickly and gracefully to "oops, I'm trying to give
memory away, but now the guest wants it back" while you're in the
middle of trying to create that 2TB list of pages.

IOW, I think the real work is in whatever tuning for the righ
tbehavior. But I'm just guessing.

             Linus