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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	devel@linuxdriverproject.org, olaf@aepfle.de, apw@canonical.com,
	andi@firstfloor.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Drivers: hv: Add Hyper-V balloon driver
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 11:47:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5075442B.80100@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121009124449.f54bf8cb.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On 10/09/2012 09:44 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun,  7 Oct 2012 16:59:46 -0700
> "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com> wrote:
> 
>> Add the basic balloon driver.
> 
> hm, how many balloon drivers does one kernel need?
> 
> Although I see that the great majority of this code is hypervisor-specific.

Much like each network driver is NIC specific.

You could think up a framework into which hypervisor specific balloon
drivers plug in, but you'll find that in each driver 85% of the code is
devoted to talking to the hypervisor, 15% is outdated comments, and the
rest is a call to alloc_pages() and a call to free_pages().

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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-10-10  9:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-07 23:59 [PATCH 0/2] Drivers: hv K. Y. Srinivasan
2012-10-07 23:59 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm: Export vm_committed_as K. Y. Srinivasan
2012-10-07 23:59   ` [PATCH 2/2] Drivers: hv: Add Hyper-V balloon driver K. Y. Srinivasan
2012-10-08  0:45     ` Greg KH
2012-10-08  3:37       ` KY Srinivasan
2012-10-08  5:45     ` Rusty Russell
2012-10-08 14:53       ` KY Srinivasan
2012-10-09 19:44     ` Andrew Morton
2012-10-10  0:09       ` KY Srinivasan
2012-10-10  1:14         ` Andrew Morton
2012-10-10  2:26           ` KY Srinivasan
2012-10-10 23:34           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2012-10-10 23:56             ` Andrew Morton
2012-10-11  8:05               ` Rusty Russell
2012-10-10  9:47       ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2012-10-08  0:43   ` [PATCH 1/2] mm: Export vm_committed_as Greg KH
2012-10-08  3:35     ` KY Srinivasan
2012-10-08 13:35       ` Greg KH
2012-10-08 13:45         ` KY Srinivasan
2012-10-09 19:47         ` Andrew Morton
2012-10-10  0:11           ` KY Srinivasan
2012-10-10  1:16             ` Andrew Morton
2012-10-10  3:18               ` KY Srinivasan
2012-11-03 14:09           ` KY Srinivasan
2012-11-05 21:44             ` Andrew Morton
2012-11-05 22:12               ` KY Srinivasan
2012-11-05 22:33                 ` David Rientjes
2012-11-06 14:46                   ` Michal Hocko
2012-11-08 22:01                   ` KY Srinivasan
2012-11-08 22:05                     ` Andrew Morton
2012-11-08 22:08                       ` KY Srinivasan
2012-11-08 22:14                       ` David Rientjes
2012-11-08 22:18                         ` Andrew Morton
2012-11-06  9:05                 ` Michal Hocko
2012-11-06 12:53                   ` KY Srinivasan
2012-11-08 13:28                   ` KY Srinivasan
2012-11-08 21:55                     ` David Rientjes

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