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@@ -188,6 +188,21 @@ 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" |