From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: fes@google.com, aarcange@redhat.com, riel@redhat.com,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, yvugenfi@redhat.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mikew@google.com,
yinghan@google.com, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio-balloon spec: provide a version of the "silent deflate" feature that works
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 13:43:06 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120907104306.GA17211@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vcfqfia1.fsf@rustcorp.com.au>
On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 04:09:50PM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > So it looks like a bug: we should teach driver to tell host first on leak?
> > Yan, Vadim, can you comment please?
> >
> > Also if true, looks like this bit will be useful to detect a fixed driver on
> > the hypervisor side - to avoid unmapping such pages? Rusty what do you
> > think?
>
> So, feature is unimplemented in qemu, and broken in drivers. I starting
> to share Paolo's dislike of it.
What is broken in drivers?
To me it looks like it works exactly as advertized: linux and bsd ack
TELL_HOST and tells host first. windows does not do either. Do windows
drivers currently are not broken: they just do not support the feature.
The claim that drivers and hyprevisors do not support it is false:
qemu does not support it but drivers do and in non trivial way.
> Don't understand why we'd care about fixed drivers though, if we remove
> the feature bit....
>
> Cheers,
> Rusty.
Do we really know there are no hypervisors implementing it?
As I said above drivers do have support.
--
MST
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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
fes@google.com, aarcange@redhat.com, riel@redhat.com,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
mikew@google.com, yinghan@google.com,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, yvugenfi@redhat.com,
vrozenfe@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio-balloon spec: provide a version of the "silent deflate" feature that works
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 13:43:06 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120907104306.GA17211@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vcfqfia1.fsf@rustcorp.com.au>
On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 04:09:50PM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > So it looks like a bug: we should teach driver to tell host first on leak?
> > Yan, Vadim, can you comment please?
> >
> > Also if true, looks like this bit will be useful to detect a fixed driver on
> > the hypervisor side - to avoid unmapping such pages? Rusty what do you
> > think?
>
> So, feature is unimplemented in qemu, and broken in drivers. I starting
> to share Paolo's dislike of it.
What is broken in drivers?
To me it looks like it works exactly as advertized: linux and bsd ack
TELL_HOST and tells host first. windows does not do either. Do windows
drivers currently are not broken: they just do not support the feature.
The claim that drivers and hyprevisors do not support it is false:
qemu does not support it but drivers do and in non trivial way.
> Don't understand why we'd care about fixed drivers though, if we remove
> the feature bit....
>
> Cheers,
> Rusty.
Do we really know there are no hypervisors implementing it?
As I said above drivers do have support.
--
MST
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-07 10:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-06 7:46 [PATCH] virtio-balloon spec: provide a version of the "silent deflate" feature that works Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-06 7:46 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-06 8:47 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-06 8:47 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-06 9:24 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-06 9:24 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-06 9:44 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-06 9:44 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-06 9:57 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-06 9:57 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-06 10:53 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-06 10:53 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-06 12:13 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-06 12:13 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-06 12:51 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-06 12:51 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-06 13:12 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-06 13:12 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-06 23:45 ` Rusty Russell
2012-09-07 5:42 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-07 5:42 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-07 6:39 ` Rusty Russell
2012-09-07 6:39 ` Rusty Russell
2012-09-07 9:27 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-07 9:27 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-07 10:53 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-07 10:53 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-07 11:20 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-07 11:20 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-07 12:17 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-07 12:17 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-07 12:22 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-07 12:22 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-07 12:44 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-07 12:44 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-07 14:04 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-07 14:04 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-07 14:25 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-07 14:25 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-07 14:44 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-07 14:44 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-08 22:22 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-08 22:22 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-10 5:50 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-10 6:03 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-10 6:03 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-10 6:38 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-10 6:38 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-10 6:47 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-10 6:47 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-10 6:55 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-10 6:55 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-10 5:50 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-07 10:43 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2012-09-07 10:43 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-08 5:06 ` Rusty Russell
2012-09-08 5:06 ` Rusty Russell
2012-09-08 10:32 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-08 10:32 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-08 22:37 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-08 22:37 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-10 1:43 ` Rusty Russell
2012-09-10 1:43 ` Rusty Russell
2012-09-10 5:51 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-10 5:51 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-10 5:51 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-10 5:51 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-12 6:24 ` Rusty Russell
2012-09-12 6:24 ` Rusty Russell
2012-09-06 23:41 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-06 23:41 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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