[Ksummit-2011-discuss] Discussion Topic proposal: Linux VM infrastructure for memory power management

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 16:37 +0000, theodore.tso at gmail.com wrote:
> * Allow the buddy allocation to track statistics
> * Use lumpy reclaim to free pages around a physical boundary
> * Explore balloon driver to do some targeted reclaim or borrow
>    concepts from mem cgroup reclaimer

I'd sooner think of migration/compaction and the way its used by mem
hotplug and the proposed CMA to free pages.

Lumpy reclaim is about to get ripped out iirc and I've never believed in
balloons, and cgroup is not about physical memory location.