[PATCH v8 0/5] make balloon pages movable by compaction

2012-08-21 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. This

[PATCH v8 0/5] make balloon pages movable by compaction

2012-08-21 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. This