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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"pv-drivers@vmware.com" <pv-drivers@vmware.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] VMware Balloon driver
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:18:04 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BBD832C.6010002@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100408053024.GA1472@ucw.cz>

On 04/08/2010 08:30 AM, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
>    
>>>> 1) is not a huge amount of code, but something consistent would be
>>>> nice.  2) is something we've been missing and is a bit of an open
>>>> question/research project anyway.
>>>>          
>>> 3) Code that attempts to reclaim 2MB pages when possible
>>>        
>> Yes.  Ballooning in 4k units is a bit silly.
>>      
> Does it make sense to treat ballooning as a form of memory hotplug?
>    

It's a fine granularity form of memory hotplug, yes.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-08  7:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-04 21:52 [PATCH] VMware Balloon driver Dmitry Torokhov
2010-04-05 21:24 ` Andrew Morton
2010-04-05 22:03   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-04-05 22:17     ` Andrew Morton
2010-04-05 22:26       ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-05 22:40         ` Andrew Morton
2010-04-05 23:01           ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-04-05 23:03           ` Dan Magenheimer
2010-04-05 23:11             ` Andrew Morton
2010-04-05 23:28               ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-04-06 16:28           ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-05 23:28       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-04-05 23:34         ` Andrew Morton
2010-04-06  0:26           ` Dan Magenheimer
2010-04-06 16:30           ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-06 17:27             ` Dan Magenheimer
2010-04-06 23:20         ` Dave Hansen
2010-04-05 22:58   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-04-06 16:32     ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-06 17:06       ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-04-06 17:42         ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-06 18:25       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-04-06 18:36         ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-06 19:18           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-04-08  5:30             ` Pavel Machek
2010-04-08  7:18               ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2010-04-08 17:01               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-04-15 21:00   ` [PATCH v2] " Dmitry Torokhov
2010-04-21 19:59     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-04-21 20:18       ` Andrew Morton
2010-04-21 20:52         ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-04-21 21:13           ` Andrew Morton
2010-04-22  0:09             ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-04-21 23:54     ` Andrew Morton
2010-04-22  0:00       ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-04-22  1:02         ` [Pv-drivers] " Dmitry Torokhov

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