From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paolo Bonzini Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio-balloon spec: provide a version of the "silent deflate" feature that works Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2012 12:32:06 +0200 Message-ID: <504B1EA6.8050304@redhat.com> References: <1346917610-14568-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com> <20120906084736.GF17656@redhat.com> <50486BB2.7070108@redhat.com> <20120906094442.GA22816@redhat.com> <50487382.8030303@redhat.com> <20120906105301.GC32325@redhat.com> <5048935A.8090308@redhat.com> <87wr06hg0l.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> <20120907054202.GA3452@redhat.com> <87vcfqfia1.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> <20120907104306.GA17211@redhat.com> <87sjatf6iv.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" , 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, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org To: Rusty Russell Return-path: In-Reply-To: <87sjatf6iv.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org Il 08/09/2012 07:06, Rusty Russell ha scritto: >> > Do we really know there are no hypervisors implementing it? > As much as can be known. Qemu doesn't, lkvm doesn't. > However, there are cases in which it would be nice to have it. Repurposing the bit to how it has been used so far (as a guest->host communication bit, not host->guest) is a better choice. Paolo