From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Alexander Atanasov <alexander.atanasov@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>,
VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers <pv-drivers@vmware.com>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
kernel@openvz.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v5 6/8] drivers: vmware: balloon - report inflated memory
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2022 12:26:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y0/Qu0eSYFqtuC/v@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221019095620.124909-7-alexander.atanasov@virtuozzo.com>
On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 12:56:18PM +0300, Alexander Atanasov wrote:
> Update the inflated memory in the mm core on change.
That says what this does, but not why it is needed.
Please expand on this.
Also, is this actually fixing a bug? Is it a new feature? Something
else?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-19 10:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-19 9:56 [RFC PATCH v5 0/8] Make balloon drivers' memory changes known to the rest of the kernel Alexander Atanasov
2022-10-19 9:56 ` Alexander Atanasov
2022-10-19 9:56 ` [RFC PATCH v5 1/8] mm: Make a place for a common balloon code Alexander Atanasov
2022-10-19 9:56 ` Alexander Atanasov
2022-10-19 9:56 ` [RFC PATCH v5 2/8] mm: Enable balloon drivers to report inflated memory Alexander Atanasov
2022-10-19 9:56 ` [RFC PATCH v5 3/8] mm: Display inflated memory to users Alexander Atanasov
2022-10-19 9:56 ` [RFC PATCH v5 4/8] mm: Display inflated memory in logs Alexander Atanasov
2022-10-19 9:56 ` [RFC PATCH v5 5/8] drivers: virtio: balloon - report inflated memory Alexander Atanasov
2022-10-19 9:56 ` [RFC PATCH v5 6/8] drivers: vmware: " Alexander Atanasov
2022-10-19 10:26 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2022-10-19 10:38 ` Alexander Atanasov
2022-10-19 10:49 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-10-19 11:06 ` Alexander Atanasov
2022-10-21 6:50 ` Nadav Amit
2022-10-21 7:25 ` Alexander Atanasov
2022-10-21 7:31 ` Nadav Amit
2022-10-21 8:02 ` Alexander Atanasov
2022-10-19 9:56 ` [RFC PATCH v5 7/8] drivers: hyperv: " Alexander Atanasov
2022-10-19 9:56 ` [RFC PATCH v5 8/8] documentation: create a document about how balloon drivers operate Alexander Atanasov
2022-10-19 13:53 ` Jonathan Corbet
2022-10-19 10:53 ` [RFC PATCH v5 0/8] Make balloon drivers' memory changes known to the rest of the kernel Konstantin Khlebnikov
2022-10-19 10:53 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2022-10-19 11:06 ` Denis V. Lunev
2022-10-19 11:06 ` Denis V. Lunev via Virtualization
2022-10-19 15:39 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2022-10-19 15:39 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2022-10-19 18:03 ` Alexander Atanasov
2022-10-19 11:44 ` Alexander Atanasov
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