Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4 1/8] mm: Place unscrubbed pages at the end of pagelist

2017-06-11 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 09.06.17 at 22:07, wrote: > On 06/09/2017 10:50 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: > On 19.05.17 at 17:50, wrote: >>> +unsigned int first_dirty; >> On x86 this change is fine at present, albeit not optimal. Its ARM >> equivalent, however, grows struct page_info in the 32-bit case, > >

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4 1/8] mm: Place unscrubbed pages at the end of pagelist

2017-06-09 Thread Boris Ostrovsky
On 06/09/2017 10:50 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: On 19.05.17 at 17:50, wrote: >> --- a/xen/common/page_alloc.c >> +++ b/xen/common/page_alloc.c >> @@ -383,6 +383,8 @@ typedef struct page_list_head >> heap_by_zone_and_order_t[NR_ZONES][MAX_ORDER+1]; >> static heap_by_zone_and_order_t *_heap[MAX_NU

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4 1/8] mm: Place unscrubbed pages at the end of pagelist

2017-06-09 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 19.05.17 at 17:50, wrote: > --- a/xen/common/page_alloc.c > +++ b/xen/common/page_alloc.c > @@ -383,6 +383,8 @@ typedef struct page_list_head > heap_by_zone_and_order_t[NR_ZONES][MAX_ORDER+1]; > static heap_by_zone_and_order_t *_heap[MAX_NUMNODES]; > #define heap(node, zone, order) ((*_h

[Xen-devel] [PATCH v4 1/8] mm: Place unscrubbed pages at the end of pagelist

2017-05-19 Thread Boris Ostrovsky
. so that it's easy to find pages that need to be scrubbed (those pages are now marked with _PGC_need_scrub bit). We keep track of the first unscrubbed page in a page buddy using first_dirty field. For now it can have two values, 0 (whole buddy needs scrubbing) or INVALID_DIRTY_IDX (the buddy does