Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758528Ab0DHHSs (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Apr 2010 03:18:48 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:16398 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758449Ab0DHHSq (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Apr 2010 03:18:46 -0400 Message-ID: <4BBD832C.6010002@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:18:04 +0300 From: Avi Kivity User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100330 Fedora/3.0.4-1.fc12 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pavel Machek CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Dmitry Torokhov , Andrew Morton , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "pv-drivers@vmware.com" Subject: Re: [PATCH] VMware Balloon driver References: <20100404215202.GA13020@dtor-ws.eng.vmware.com> <20100405142419.2c9bea3d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20100405225833.GA25970@dtor-ws.eng.vmware.com> <4BBB622F.4070501@redhat.com> <4BBB7CA3.2060802@goop.org> <4BBB7F1E.3030307@redhat.com> <4BBB890E.5040808@goop.org> <20100408053024.GA1472@ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <20100408053024.GA1472@ucw.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 826 Lines: 25 On 04/08/2010 08:30 AM, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > >>>> 1) is not a huge amount of code, but something consistent would be >>>> nice. 2) is something we've been missing and is a bit of an open >>>> question/research project anyway. >>>> >>> 3) Code that attempts to reclaim 2MB pages when possible >>> >> Yes. Ballooning in 4k units is a bit silly. >> > Does it make sense to treat ballooning as a form of memory hotplug? > It's a fine granularity form of memory hotplug, yes. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/