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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 kernel 0/7] Extend virtio-balloon for fast
 (de)inflating & fast live migration
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2016 09:15:58 -0700
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On 08/07/2016 11:35 PM, Liang Li wrote:
> Dave Hansen suggested a new scheme to encode the data structure,
> because of additional complexity, it's not implemented in v3.

FWIW, I don't think it takes any additional complexity here, at least in
the guest implementation side.  The thing I suggested would just mean
explicitly calling out that there was a single bitmap instead of
implying it in the ABI.

Do you think the scheme I suggested is the way to go?