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From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Add virtio balloon driver (v2)
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:56:28 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48B72D1C.9070402@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1219964075-9888-3-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com>

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> This patch adds the virtio balloon driver.  It doesn't actually reduce the RSS
> size when using KVM (although it does when using -no-kvm).  This is because
> even with MMU notifiers, we're holding a reference to each page in the shadow
> page table.  Once we switch to not taking a reference for pages in the shadow
> page table, the balloon driver should work as expected.
>   

Too late in the day for me.  This comment is totally bogus.  Avi: can 
you just ignore everything but the first sentence? :-)

Regards,

Anthony Liguori


  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-28 22:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-28 22:54 [PATCH 1/3] Extend virtio config routines to support ballooning Anthony Liguori
2008-08-28 22:54 ` [PATCH 2/3] add ballooning infrastructure to QEMU Anthony Liguori
2008-08-28 22:54 ` [PATCH 3/3] Add virtio balloon driver (v2) Anthony Liguori
2008-08-28 22:56   ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2008-08-29 11:21     ` Avi Kivity
2008-08-29 11:31 ` [PATCH 1/3] Extend virtio config routines to support ballooning Avi Kivity

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