From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Hansen Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH v3 kernel 1/7] virtio-balloon: rework deflate to add page to a list Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 09:46:05 -0700 Message-ID: <580E3ACD.1080906@intel.com> References: <1477031080-12616-1-git-send-email-liang.z.li@intel.com> <1477031080-12616-2-git-send-email-liang.z.li@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, quintela@redhat.com, dgilbert@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com, amit.shah@redhat.com To: Liang Li , mst@redhat.com Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1477031080-12616-2-git-send-email-liang.z.li@intel.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On 10/20/2016 11:24 PM, Liang Li wrote: > Will allow faster notifications using a bitmap down the road. > balloon_pfn_to_page() can be removed because it's useless. This is a pretty terse description of what's going on here. Could you try to elaborate a bit? What *is* the current approach? Why does it not work going forward? What do you propose instead? Why is it better? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org