From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail203.messagelabs.com (mail203.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.243]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E81F6B003D for ; Sat, 28 Mar 2009 02:35:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Rusty Russell Subject: Re: [patch 0/6] Guest page hinting version 7. Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:05:28 +1030 References: <20090327150905.819861420@de.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20090327150905.819861420@de.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200903281705.29798.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: Martin Schwidefsky , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, frankeh@watson.ibm.com, riel@redhat.com, hugh@veritas.com List-ID: On Saturday 28 March 2009 01:39:05 Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > Greetings, > the circus is back in town -- another version of the guest page hinting > patches. The patches differ from version 6 only in the kernel version, > they apply against 2.6.29. My short sniff test showed that the code > is still working as expected. > > To recap (you can skip this if you read the boiler plate of the last > version of the patches): > The main benefit for guest page hinting vs. the ballooner is that there > is no need for a monitor that keeps track of the memory usage of all the > guests, a complex algorithm that calculates the working set sizes and for > the calls into the guest kernel to control the size of the balloons. I thought you weren't convinced of the concrete benefits over ballooning, or am I misremembering? Thanks, Rusty. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org