[virtio-comment] Re: [PATCH v6 0/3] virtio-spec: Add documentation for recently added balloon features

[Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>]

On Mon, 10 Aug 2020 09:58:38 -0700
Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com> wrote:

> So it has been almost a month since I submitted this and there hasn't
> been any feedback. I'm wondering if this is ready for acceptance. If
> so what are the next steps to getting this accepted into the virtio
> spec?

It would be nice to get an ack on patch 1, but I don't feel comfortable
doing that.

The usual procedure is to request a vote (open a github issue, link to
the patch and mention the issue here, and request a vote in the issue.)

> 
> Thanks.
> 
> - Alex
> 
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 11:24 AM Alexander Duyck
> <alexander.duyck@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > This patch set is meant to add documentation for balloon features that have
> > been recently added to the Linux kernel[1,2] and that were recently added
> > to QEMU[3].
> >
> > Changes since RFC:
> > Incorporated suggestions from Cornelia Huck
> > Fixed a few additional spelling errors
> >
> > Changes since v1:
> > Incorporated additional suggestions from Cornelia Huck
> > Dropped documentation referring to free page reporting from page poison patch
> >
> > Changes since v2:
> > Rewrote multiple statements based on input from David Hildenbrand
> >   Dropped use of balloon and deflate from page hinting description
> >   Dropped use of free page reporting from page poison description
> >   Cleaned up several spots that didn't match RFC2119 style comments
> >   Added conformance links.
> >   Various other clean-ups.
> > Updated balloon command IDs based on input from Cornelia Huck
> >
> > Changes since v3:
> > Reordered patches to place free page hinting at end of patch set
> >   Moved contents out of patch to poison and free page reporting patches
> >   Updated patch description to document some known issues with feature
> > Further clean-ups based on input from David Hildenbrand
> >
> > Changes since v4:
> > Further clean-ups for page hinting based on input from David Hildenbrand
> >
> > Changes since v5:
> > Reverted patcher order changes from v3 placing hinting as first patch
> > Addressed comments and added Reviewed-by from Cornelia Huck
> > Addressed further items I found in free page hinting
> >   Added requirement that output buffers be 4 bytes in size
> >   Replaced reference to descriptor with buffer
> >   Replaced references to free_page_hint_vq with free_page_vq
> >
> > [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200211224416.29318.44077.stgit@localhost.localdomain/
> > [2]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b0c504f154718904ae49349147e3b7e6ae91ffdc
> > [3]: https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/virtio-dev/202004/msg00180.html
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Alexander Duyck (3):
> >       content: Document balloon feature free page hints
> >       content: Document balloon feature page poison
> >       content: Document balloon feature free page reporting
> >
> >
> >  conformance.tex |    6 +
> >  content.tex     |  279 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> >  2 files changed, 279 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> >
> > --
> >  
> 


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