[PATCH v2 0/2] mm: remove the memory isolate notifier

David Hildenbrand david at redhat.com
Mon Dec 2 21:27:14 AEDT 2019


On 14.11.19 14:19, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> This is the MM part of
> 	https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/10/31/487
> 
> "We can get rid of the memory isolate notifier by switching to balloon
> compaction in powerpc's CMM (Collaborative Memory Management). The memory
> isolate notifier was only necessary to allow to offline memory blocks that
> contain inflated/"loaned" pages - which also possible when the inflated
> pages are movable (via balloon compaction). [...]"
> 
> Michael queued the POWERPC bits that remove the single user, but I am
> missing ACKs for the MM bits. I think it makes sense to let these two
> patches also go via Michael's tree, to avoid collissions. Thoughts?

The prereqs (powerpc bits) are upstream - I assume Michael didn't want
to mess with MM patches. @Andrew, please pick these up once you feel
like time for them has come. :)


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Thanks,

David / dhildenb



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