From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [RFC] QEMU: Balloon support for device assignment Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:28:36 +0200 Message-ID: <4B7BC4D4.6020909@redhat.com> References: <1266399807-4498-1-git-send-email-borove@il.ibm.com> <1266399807-4498-2-git-send-email-borove@il.ibm.com> <1266399807-4498-3-git-send-email-borove@il.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, benami@il.ibm.com To: borove@il.ibm.com Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:35603 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751702Ab0BQK2j (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:28:39 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1266399807-4498-3-git-send-email-borove@il.ibm.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 02/17/2010 11:43 AM, borove@il.ibm.com wrote: > From: Eran Borovik > > This patch adds modifications to allow correct > balloon operation when a virtual guest uses a direct assigned device. > The modifications include a new interface between qemu and kvm to allow > mapping and unmapping the pages from the IOMMU as well as pinning and unpinning as needed. > Note, on reset we deflate the balloon completely, since the BIOS and boot loader (and possibly the OS post-reboot) are not aware of ballooning. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function