[virtio-comment] Re: [PATCH v8 0/3] virtio-spec: Add documentation for recently added balloon features

[Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>]

On Tue, 25 Aug 2020 07:44:55 -0700
Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com> wrote:

> This patch set is meant to add documentation for balloon features that have
> been recently added to the Linux kernel[1,2] and that were recently added
> to QEMU[3].
> 
> Fixes: https://github.com/oasis-tcs/virtio-spec/issues/84
> 
> Changes since RFC:
> Incorporated suggestions from Cornelia Huck
> Fixed a few additional spelling errors
> 
> Changes since v1:
> Incorporated additional suggestions from Cornelia Huck
> Dropped documentation referring to free page reporting from page poison patch
> 
> Changes since v2:
> Rewrote multiple statements based on input from David Hildenbrand
>   Dropped use of balloon and deflate from page hinting description
>   Dropped use of free page reporting from page poison description
>   Cleaned up several spots that didn't match RFC2119 style comments
>   Added conformance links.
>   Various other clean-ups.
> Updated balloon command IDs based on input from Cornelia Huck
> 
> Changes since v3:
> Reordered patches to place free page hinting at end of patch set
>   Moved contents out of patch to poison and free page reporting patches
>   Updated patch description to document some known issues with feature
> Further clean-ups based on input from David Hildenbrand
> 
> Changes since v4:
> Further clean-ups for page hinting based on input from David Hildenbrand
> 
> Changes since v5:
> Reverted patcher order changes from v3 placing hinting as first patch
> Addressed comments and added Reviewed-by from Cornelia Huck
> Addressed further items I found in free page hinting
>   Added requirement that output buffers be 4 bytes in size
>   Replaced reference to descriptor with buffer
>   Replaced references to free_page_hint_vq with free_page_vq
> 
> Changes since v6:
> Fixed line that was left over from a merge conflict
> Added Reviewed-by from David Hildenbrand
> Created issue and added "Fixes" to cover page
> 
> Changes since v7:
> Removed comments from patch 1 describing issues that we fixed or addressed
> Added Acked-by for patch 1 from Cornelia Huck
> 
> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200211224416.29318.44077.stgit@localhost.localdomain/
> [2]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b0c504f154718904ae49349147e3b7e6ae91ffdc
> [3]: https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/virtio-dev/202004/msg00180.html
> 
> ---
> 
> Alexander Duyck (3):
>       content: Document balloon feature free page hints
>       content: Document balloon feature page poison
>       content: Document balloon feature free page reporting
> 
> 
>  conformance.tex |    6 +
>  content.tex     |  286 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  2 files changed, 286 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> --
> 

I think this is good to vote on now.


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