From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@eu.citrix.com>
To: "v.tolstov@selfip.ru" <v.tolstov@selfip.ru>
Cc: Daniel Kiper <dkiper@net-space.pl>,
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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH R3 0/7] xen/balloon: Memory hotplug support for Xen balloon driver
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 09:11:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1296810682.13091.571.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1296768009.2346.7.camel@mobile>
On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 21:20 +0000, Vasiliy G Tolstov wrote:
> I have some may be offtopic question: Is that possible to export balloon
> function balloon_set_new_target to GPL modules (EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL) ?
> This helps to kernel modules (not in kernel tree) to contol balloonin
> (for example autoballoon or something else) without needing to write so
> sysfs. (Writing files from kernel module is bad, this says Linux Kernel
> Faq).
Is there a reason to do it from kernel space in the first place? auto
ballooning can be done by a userspace daemon, can't it?
Ian.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-04 9:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-03 16:23 Daniel Kiper
2011-02-03 21:20 ` [Xen-devel] " Vasiliy G Tolstov
2011-02-04 9:11 ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2011-02-04 9:21 ` Vasiliy G Tolstov
2011-02-04 16:29 ` Dan Magenheimer
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