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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: Liang Li <liang.z.li@intel.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: 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
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	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <57A8B03E.4080709@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1470638134-24149-1-git-send-email-liang.z.li@intel.com>

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?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-08-08 16:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-08  6:35 [PATCH v3 kernel 0/7] Extend virtio-balloon for fast (de)inflating & fast live migration Liang Li
2016-08-08  6:35 ` [PATCH v3 kernel 1/7] virtio-balloon: rework deflate to add page to a list Liang Li
2016-08-08  6:35 ` [PATCH v3 kernel 2/7] virtio-balloon: define new feature bit and page bitmap head Liang Li
2016-08-08  6:35 ` [PATCH v3 kernel 3/7] mm: add a function to get the max pfn Liang Li
2016-08-08  6:35 ` [PATCH v3 kernel 4/7] virtio-balloon: speed up inflate/deflate process Liang Li
2016-08-08  8:17   ` kbuild test robot
2016-08-08  6:35 ` [PATCH v3 kernel 5/7] mm: add the related functions to get unused page Liang Li
2016-08-08  6:35 ` [PATCH v3 kernel 6/7] virtio-balloon: define feature bit and head for misc virt queue Liang Li
2016-08-08  6:35 ` [PATCH v3 kernel 7/7] virtio-balloon: tell host vm's unused page info Liang Li
2016-08-08 16:15 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2016-08-09  2:52   ` [PATCH v3 kernel 0/7] Extend virtio-balloon for fast (de)inflating & fast live migration Li, Liang Z
2016-08-18  1:05 ` Li, Liang Z
2016-08-31  6:28   ` Li, Liang Z
2016-09-01  4:30 ` Wanpeng Li
2016-09-01  5:46   ` Li, Liang Z
2016-09-01  6:01     ` Wanpeng Li

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