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From: Kai Huang <kaih.linux@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Is there any consumer of virtio-balloon now?
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 20:19:39 +0800
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Thanks Paolo. What's the user space tool / command to trigger the=20
virtio_balloon functionality? Basically I am looking for the whole code=
=20
patch that triggers the virtio_balloon.

Thanks,
-Kai
On 2014=E5=B9=B403=E6=9C=8821=E6=97=A5 16:51, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 21/03/2014 05:22, Kai Huang ha scritto:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I see the virtio-balloon is designed for memory auto balloon between
>> KVM host and guest, but from latest linux kernel mainline code, look=
s
>> currently there's no consumer actually using it? Would you let me kn=
ow
>> who is the consumer if there's any?
>
> The virtio-balloon driver is in drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c. Righ=
t=20
> now it only does manual ballooning though, not automatic.
>
> Paolo
>