From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 2/4] virtio_balloon: introduce migration primitives to balloon pages
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:30:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <502BC09A.5050104@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120814213832.GA29180@redhat.com>
On 08/14/2012 05:38 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> And even ignoring that, global pointer to a device
> is an ugly hack and ugly hacks tend to explode.
>
> And even ignoring estetics, and if we decide we are fine
> with a single balloon, it needs to fail gracefully not
> crash like it does now.
Fair enough. That certainly seems easy enough to fix.
Each balloon driver can have its own struct address_space,
and simply point mapping->host (or any of the others) at
a global balloon thing somewhere.
if (page->mapping && page->mapping->host == balloon_magic)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-15 15:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-10 17:55 [PATCH v7 0/4] make balloon pages movable by compaction Rafael Aquini
2012-08-10 17:55 ` [PATCH v7 1/4] mm: introduce compaction and migration for virtio ballooned pages Rafael Aquini
2012-08-12 23:14 ` Minchan Kim
2012-08-13 8:26 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-14 17:44 ` Rafael Aquini
2012-08-14 19:35 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-14 19:48 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-14 20:03 ` Rafael Aquini
2012-08-14 20:00 ` Rafael Aquini
2012-08-14 20:23 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-15 8:52 ` Mel Gorman
2012-08-14 19:52 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-10 17:55 ` [PATCH v7 2/4] virtio_balloon: introduce migration primitives to balloon pages Rafael Aquini
2012-08-13 8:41 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-13 23:59 ` Rusty Russell
2012-08-14 8:33 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-14 18:44 ` Rafael Aquini
2012-08-14 19:31 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-15 12:34 ` Rafael Aquini
2012-08-15 14:40 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-20 2:29 ` Rusty Russell
2012-08-20 5:12 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-15 3:13 ` Rusty Russell
2012-08-14 18:22 ` Rafael Aquini
2012-08-14 19:51 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-14 19:59 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-14 20:08 ` Rafael Aquini
2012-08-14 20:24 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-14 20:29 ` Rafael Aquini
2012-08-14 20:49 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-14 20:54 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-14 20:56 ` Rik van Riel
2012-08-14 21:38 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-15 15:30 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2012-08-14 21:34 ` Rafael Aquini
2012-08-14 22:48 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-14 20:11 ` Rafael Aquini
2012-08-14 20:31 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-15 9:05 ` Mel Gorman
2012-08-15 9:25 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-15 9:48 ` Mel Gorman
2012-08-15 10:01 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-15 11:16 ` Mel Gorman
2012-08-15 11:28 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-21 5:31 ` Rusty Russell
2012-08-22 0:37 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-10 17:55 ` [PATCH v7 3/4] mm: introduce putback_movable_pages() Rafael Aquini
2012-08-12 23:26 ` Minchan Kim
2012-08-10 17:55 ` [PATCH v7 4/4] mm: add vm event counters for balloon pages compaction Rafael Aquini
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