From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Add virtio balloon driver (v2)
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:21:20 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48B7DBB0.605@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48B72D1C.9070402@us.ibm.com>
Anthony Liguori wrote:
> 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? :-)
>
Actually, the last word in the first sentence is incorrect as well.
--
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-29 11:21 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
2008-08-29 11:21 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-08-29 11:31 ` [PATCH 1/3] Extend virtio config routines to support ballooning Avi Kivity
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