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[80.230.35.22]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id ffacd0b85a97d-4356992681esm58497f8f.11.2026.01.15.08.53.40 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Thu, 15 Jan 2026 08:53:42 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 11:53:39 -0500 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" To: "David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)" Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Broadcom internal kernel review list , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux.dev, Andrew Morton , Oscar Salvador , "Liam R. Howlett" , Vlastimil Babka , Mike Rapoport , Suren Baghdasaryan , Michal Hocko , Jonathan Corbet , Madhavan Srinivasan , Michael Ellerman , Nicholas Piggin , Christophe Leroy , Arnd Bergmann , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Jerrin Shaji George , Jason Wang , Xuan Zhuo , Eugenio =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=E9rez?= , Zi Yan Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 22/23] mm: rename CONFIG_MEMORY_BALLOON -> CONFIG_BALLOON Message-ID: <20260115115228-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> References: <20260115092015.3928975-1-david@kernel.org> <20260115092015.3928975-23-david@kernel.org> <219f7be4-8355-4376-bf97-3410c6e23867@lucifer.local> <37fdb994-59d1-4196-b377-f3f749148b19@kernel.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: virtualization@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <37fdb994-59d1-4196-b377-f3f749148b19@kernel.org> X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-MFC-PROC-ID: TodwXxfKALBv-5UUE_ctLz5pvAdLqyCth2xxDw_rLXI_1768496024 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 05:33:56PM +0100, David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) wrote: > I'll note that the spec also defines a "DEVICE ID of Virtio Cpu balloon device as 47". But > no changes really happened in the spec with that for the last two years (only the > id is reserved). > > > [1] https://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.4/virtio-v1.4.html#x1-4260001 Maybe that's a good reason to keep calling it "memory balloon". And hey, there's also the floating, pops easily kind and maybe someone will use those with linux in some way :) > -- > Cheers > > David