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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pv-drivers@vmware.com,
	Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] VMware Balloon driver
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 16:34:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100405163458.135fa319.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BBA7226.9080508@goop.org>

On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:28:38 -0700
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:

> And is there some way to get the vm subsystem to provide backpressure: 
> "I'm getting desperately short of memory!"?

Not really.  One could presumably pull dopey tricks by hooking into
slab shrinker registration or even ->writepage().  But cooking up
something explicit doesn't sound too hard - the trickiest bit would be
actually defining what it should do.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-05 23:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-04 21:52 [PATCH] VMware Balloon driver Dmitry Torokhov
2010-04-05 21:24 ` Andrew Morton
2010-04-05 22:03   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-04-05 22:17     ` Andrew Morton
2010-04-05 22:26       ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-05 22:40         ` Andrew Morton
2010-04-05 23:01           ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-04-05 23:03           ` Dan Magenheimer
2010-04-05 23:11             ` Andrew Morton
2010-04-05 23:28               ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-04-06 16:28           ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-05 23:28       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-04-05 23:34         ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2010-04-06  0:26           ` Dan Magenheimer
2010-04-06 16:30           ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-06 17:27             ` Dan Magenheimer
2010-04-06 23:20         ` Dave Hansen
2010-04-05 22:58   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-04-06 16:32     ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-06 17:06       ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-04-06 17:42         ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-06 18:25       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-04-06 18:36         ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-06 19:18           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-04-08  5:30             ` Pavel Machek
2010-04-08  7:18               ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-08 17:01               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-04-15 21:00   ` [PATCH v2] " Dmitry Torokhov
2010-04-21 19:59     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-04-21 20:18       ` Andrew Morton
2010-04-21 20:52         ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-04-21 21:13           ` Andrew Morton
2010-04-22  0:09             ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-04-21 23:54     ` Andrew Morton
2010-04-22  0:00       ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-04-22  1:02         ` [Pv-drivers] " Dmitry Torokhov

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