[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Disable virtio-balloon memory stats interface

[Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>]

On (Tue) Aug 31 2010 [09:12:39], Amit Shah wrote:
> On (Mon) Aug 30 2010 [14:17:51], Adam Litke wrote:
> > The addition of memory stats reporting to the virtio balloon causes
> > the 'info balloon' command to become asynchronous.  This is a regression
> > because management tools that consume this command were not designed to
> > handle lost or delayed responses.
> > 
> > To fix this regression, the virtio balloon memory stats feature is being
> > disabled in qemu-0.13.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
> > 
> > diff --git a/hw/virtio-balloon.c b/hw/virtio-balloon.c
> > index 9fe3886..2d80382 100644
> > --- a/hw/virtio-balloon.c
> > +++ b/hw/virtio-balloon.c
> > @@ -190,7 +190,18 @@ static void virtio_balloon_set_config(VirtIODevice *vdev,
> >  
> >  static uint32_t virtio_balloon_get_features(VirtIODevice *vdev, uint32_t f)
> >  {
> > -    f |= (1 << VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_STATS_VQ);
> > +    /*
> > +     * The addition of memory stats reporting to the virtio balloon causes
> > +     * the 'info balloon' command to become asynchronous.  This is a regression
> > +     * because management tools that consume this command were not designed to
> > +     * handle lost or delayed responses.
> 
> Rather, the monitor now gets stuck when it originally didn't.

Care to update the comment and the commit message and send as a
top-level patch (and also for 0.13)?

Thanks

		Amit