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@@ -143,6 +143,25 @@ config NO_BOOTMEM config MEMORY_ISOLATION boolean +config MOVABLE_NODE + boolean "Enable to assign a node which has only movable memory" + depends on HAVE_MEMBLOCK + depends on NO_BOOTMEM + depends on X86_64 + depends on NUMA + default n + help + Allow a node to have only movable memory. Pages used by the kernel, + such as direct mapping pages cannot be migrated. So the corresponding + memory device cannot be hotplugged. This option allows users to + online all the memory of a node as movable memory so that the whole + node can be hotplugged. Users who don't use the memory hotplug + feature are fine with this option on since they don't online memory + as movable. + + Say Y here if you want to hotplug a whole node. + Say N here if you want kernel to use memory on all nodes evenly. + # eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM' config MEMORY_HOTPLUG bool "Allow for memory hot-add" @@ -188,6 +207,21 @@ config SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS default "4" # +# support for memory balloon compaction +config BALLOON_COMPACTION + bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration" + def_bool y + depends on COMPACTION && VIRTIO_BALLOON + help + 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. Allowing the compaction & migration for memory + pages enlisted as being part of memory balloon devices avoids the + scenario aforementioned and helps improving memory defragmentation. + +# # support for memory compaction config COMPACTION bool "Allow for memory compaction" |
