[PATCH v3 kernel 0/7] Extend virtio-balloon for fast (de)inflating & fast live migration

Li, Liang Z
2016-08-09T02:52:41Z

> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 kernel 0/7] Extend virtio-balloon for fast
(de)inflating
> & fast live migration
>
> On 08/07/2016 11:35 PM, Liang Li wrote:
> > Dave Hansen suggested a new scheme to encode the data structure,
> > because of additional complexity, it's not implemented in v3.
>
> FWIW, I don't think it takes any additional complexity here, at least
in the
> guest implementation side.  The thing I suggested would just mean
explicitly
> calling out that there was a single bitmap instead of implying it in the
ABI.
>
> Do you think the scheme I suggested is the way to go?

Yes, I think so.  And I will do that in the later version. In this V3, I just
want to solve the
issue caused by a large page bitmap in v2.

Liang