Re: [PATCH v6 2/3] virtio_balloon: introduce migration primitives to balloon pages

2012-08-08 Thread Rik van Riel
On 08/08/2012 06:53 PM, Rafael Aquini wrote: 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

[PATCH v6 2/3] virtio_balloon: introduce migration primitives to balloon pages

2012-08-08 Thread Rafael Aquini
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. Besides

[PATCH v6 2/3] virtio_balloon: introduce migration primitives to balloon pages

2012-08-08 Thread Rafael Aquini
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. Besides

Re: [PATCH v6 2/3] virtio_balloon: introduce migration primitives to balloon pages

2012-08-08 Thread Rik van Riel
On 08/08/2012 06:53 PM, Rafael Aquini wrote: 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