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2013 May 28
2
[PATCH v2 1/2] virtio-balloon spec: rewrite description of VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_MUST_TELL_HOST
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 07:40:17PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> The idea of the VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_MUST_TELL_HOST feature was to let drivers
> skip usage of the deflate queue when leaking the balloon ("silent
> deflation"). Guests may benefit from silent deflate by aggressively
> inflating the balloon; they know that they will be able to use ballooned
> pages without issuing a (blocking)...
2013 May 28
0
[PATCH v2 1/2] virtio-balloon spec: rewrite description of VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_MUST_TELL_HOST
The idea of the VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_MUST_TELL_HOST feature was to let drivers
skip usage of the deflate queue when leaking the balloon ("silent
deflation"). Guests may benefit from silent deflate by aggressively
inflating the balloon; they know that they will be able to use ballooned
pages without issuing a (blocking) request to the devi...
2013 May 29
0
[PATCH v2 1/2] virtio-balloon spec: rewrite description of VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_MUST_TELL_HOST
Il 28/05/2013 20:15, Michael S. Tsirkin ha scritto:
> What you write in spec below and what you write above seems to
> contradict.
>
> Look, how about the simpler patch that I sent:
> "[PATCH] virtio-spec: balloon: MUST_TELL_HOST is optional"
>
> does it functionally do everything you want in this patch?
No, though it is a step forward.
But let's take a step back instead; here are the requirements:
1) old drivers work unmodified on new hosts
2) new drivers work unmodified on old guests, though it is okay...
2013 May 28
5
[PATCH v2 0/2] virtio-balloon spec: silent deflation
Here is the series, split in two patches, with small edits and new
commit messages.
Paolo Bonzini (2):
virtio-balloon spec: rewrite description of
VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_MUST_TELL_HOST
virtio-balloon spec: reintroduce "silent deflation" feature
virtio-spec.lyx | 238 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 233 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
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1.8.2.1
2013 May 29
1
[PATCH v2 1/2] virtio-balloon spec: rewrite description of VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_MUST_TELL_HOST
...M +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 28/05/2013 20:15, Michael S. Tsirkin ha scritto:
> > What you write in spec below and what you write above seems to
> > contradict.
> >
> > Look, how about the simpler patch that I sent:
> > "[PATCH] virtio-spec: balloon: MUST_TELL_HOST is optional"
> >
> > does it functionally do everything you want in this patch?
>
> No, though it is a step forward.
>
> But let's take a step back instead; here are the requirements:
>
> 1) old drivers work unmodified on new hosts
>
> 2) new driver...