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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: Liang Li <liang.z.li@intel.com>, mst@redhat.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	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,
	pbonzini@redhat.com, cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com,
	amit.shah@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RESEND PATCH v3 kernel 1/7] virtio-balloon: rework deflate to add page to a list
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 09:46:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <580E3ACD.1080906@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1477031080-12616-2-git-send-email-liang.z.li@intel.com>

On 10/20/2016 11:24 PM, Liang Li wrote:
> Will allow faster notifications using a bitmap down the road.
> balloon_pfn_to_page() can be removed because it's useless.

This is a pretty terse description of what's going on here.  Could you
try to elaborate a bit?  What *is* the current approach?  Why does it
not work going forward?  What do you propose instead?  Why is it better?

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-24 16:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-21  6:24 [Qemu-devel] [RESEND PATCH v3 kernel 0/7] Extend virtio-balloon for fast (de)inflating & fast live migration Liang Li
2016-10-21  6:24 ` [Qemu-devel] [RESEND PATCH v3 kernel 1/7] virtio-balloon: rework deflate to add page to a list Liang Li
2016-10-24 16:46   ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2016-10-25  1:14     ` Li, Liang Z
2016-10-21  6:24 ` [Qemu-devel] [RESEND PATCH v3 kernel 2/7] virtio-balloon: define new feature bit and page bitmap head Liang Li
2016-10-24 16:51   ` Dave Hansen
2016-10-25  1:21     ` Li, Liang Z
2016-10-26 15:35   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-10-21  6:24 ` [Qemu-devel] [RESEND PATCH v3 kernel 3/7] mm: add a function to get the max pfn Liang Li
2016-10-24 16:53   ` Dave Hansen
2016-10-25  1:24     ` Li, Liang Z
2016-10-21  6:24 ` [Qemu-devel] [RESEND PATCH v3 kernel 4/7] virtio-balloon: speed up inflate/deflate process Liang Li
2016-10-25  6:36   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-10-25  9:46     ` Li, Liang Z
2016-10-21  6:24 ` [Qemu-devel] [RESEND PATCH v3 kernel 5/7] mm: add the related functions to get unused page Liang Li
2016-10-21  6:24 ` [Qemu-devel] [RESEND PATCH v3 kernel 6/7] virtio-balloon: define feature bit and head for misc virt queue Liang Li
2016-10-27 18:29   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-10-21  6:24 ` [Qemu-devel] [RESEND PATCH v3 kernel 7/7] virtio-balloon: tell host vm's unused page info Liang Li
2016-10-21 17:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [RESEND PATCH v3 kernel 0/7] Extend virtio-balloon for fast (de)inflating & fast live migration Dave Hansen
2016-10-21 19:44   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-10-23 11:29     ` Li, Liang Z
2016-10-25  3:52       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-10-26 10:06   ` Li, Liang Z
2016-10-26 10:13     ` Li, Liang Z
2016-10-26 18:15       ` Dave Hansen
2016-10-27  0:36         ` Li, Liang Z
2016-10-26 18:11     ` Dave Hansen
2016-10-27  0:51       ` Li, Liang Z

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