From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751821Ab2GIAjw (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jul 2012 20:39:52 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:47740 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751437Ab2GIAjs (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jul 2012 20:39:48 -0400 From: Rusty Russell To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: Rafael Aquini , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, virtualization Subject: Re: RFD: virtio balloon API use (was Re: [PATCH 5 of 5] virtio: expose added descriptors immediately) In-Reply-To: <20120704105533.GB21704@redhat.com> References: <20120701092051.GA4515@redhat.com> <87d34fx990.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> <20120702072558.GA8268@redhat.com> <20120702160814.GB1750@t510.redhat.com> <87vci5wtzh.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> <20120704105533.GB21704@redhat.com> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.12 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/23.3.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2012 09:09:45 +0930 Message-ID: <877gud4ybi.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 4 Jul 2012 13:55:33 +0300, "Michael S. Tsirkin" wrote: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 10:17:46AM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote: > > On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 13:08:19 -0300, Rafael Aquini wrote: > > > As 'locking in balloon', may I assume the approach I took for the compaction case > > > is OK and aligned to address these concerns of yours? If not, do not hesitate in > > > giving me your thoughts, please. I'm respinning a V3 series to address a couple > > > of extra nitpicks from the compaction standpoint, and I'd love to be able to > > > address any extra concern you might have on the balloon side of that work. > > > > It's orthogonal, though looks like they clash textually :( > > > > I'll re-spin MST's patch on top of yours, and include both in my tree, > > otherwise linux-next will have to do the merge. But I'll await your > > push before pushing to Linus next merge window. > > > > Thanks, > > Rusty. > > While theoretical mine is a bugfix so could be 3.5 material, no? It's a little thin, but it's a good idea. I'll try. Cheers, Rusty.