From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kai Huang Subject: Re: Is there any consumer of virtio-balloon now? Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 20:22:23 +0800 Message-ID: <532D807F.2050208@gmail.com> References: <20140321090307.GB8527@tesla.pnq.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Kashyap Chamarthy Return-path: Received: from mail-pa0-f52.google.com ([209.85.220.52]:59869 "EHLO mail-pa0-f52.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751121AbaCVMXL (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Mar 2014 08:23:11 -0400 Received: by mail-pa0-f52.google.com with SMTP id rd3so3532728pab.11 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2014 05:23:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20140321090307.GB8527@tesla.pnq.redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Just see the reply. Thanks a lot! Thanks, -Kai On 2014=E5=B9=B403=E6=9C=8821=E6=97=A5 17:03, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 12:22:54PM +0800, Kai Huang wrote: >> 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? > >From a quick look up, I see at-least there are some users[1] on > libvirt-users list. And, here's a nice explanation/usage of it[2] > > > [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvirt-users/2011-October/msg= 00059.html > [2] http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/07/17/virtio-balloon/ >