From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"pv-drivers@vmware.com" <pv-drivers@vmware.com>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] VMware Balloon driver
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:32:47 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BBB622F.4070501@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100405225833.GA25970@dtor-ws.eng.vmware.com>
On 04/06/2010 01:58 AM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>
>> Also please explain the applicability of this driver. Will xen use it?
>> kvm? Out-of-tree code?
>>
> The driver is expected to be used on VMware platform - mainly ESX.
> Originally we tried to converge with KVM and use virtio and
> stock virtio_balloon driver but Avi mentioned that our code emulating
> virtqueue was more than balloon code itself and thus using virtio did
> not make nuch sense.
>
Yeah. If we wanted commonality, we could make a balloon_core.c that
contains the common code. IMO that's premature, but perhaps there's
some meat there (like suspend/resume support and /proc//sys interface).
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-06 16:54 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
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 [this message]
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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