Re: [PATCH v7 2/4] virtio_balloon: introduce migration primitives to balloon pages

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 03:01:37PM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 14:28:51 +0300, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:16:51PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > > I was thinking of exactly that page->mapping == balloon_mapping check. As I
> > > do not know how many active balloon drivers there might be I cannot guess
> > > in advance how much of a scalability problem it will be.
> > 
> > Not at all sure multiple drivers are worth supporting, but multiple
> > *devices* is I think worth supporting, if for no other reason than that
> > they can work today. For that, we need a device pointer which Rafael
> > wants to put into the mapping, this means multiple balloon mappings.
> 
> Rafael, please make sure that the balloon driver fails on the second and
> subsequent balloon devices.
> 
> Michael, we only allow multiple balloon devices because it fell out of
> the implementation.  If it causes us even the slightest issue, we should
> not support it.  It's not a sensible setup.
> 
> Cheers,
> Rusty.

Looks like latest revision does it using a flag which seems cleaner,
so I think the point is moot.

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MST

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