From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Add virtio balloon driver (v2)
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:56:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48B72D1C.9070402@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1219964075-9888-3-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Anthony Liguori wrote:
> This patch adds the virtio balloon driver. It doesn't actually reduce the RSS
> size when using KVM (although it does when using -no-kvm). This is because
> even with MMU notifiers, we're holding a reference to each page in the shadow
> page table. Once we switch to not taking a reference for pages in the shadow
> page table, the balloon driver should work as expected.
>
Too late in the day for me. This comment is totally bogus. Avi: can
you just ignore everything but the first sentence? :-)
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-28 22:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-28 22:54 [PATCH 1/3] Extend virtio config routines to support ballooning Anthony Liguori
2008-08-28 22:54 ` [PATCH 2/3] add ballooning infrastructure to QEMU Anthony Liguori
2008-08-28 22:54 ` [PATCH 3/3] Add virtio balloon driver (v2) Anthony Liguori
2008-08-28 22:56 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2008-08-29 11:21 ` Avi Kivity
2008-08-29 11:31 ` [PATCH 1/3] Extend virtio config routines to support ballooning Avi Kivity
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