From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pa0-f72.google.com (mail-pa0-f72.google.com [209.85.220.72]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44EC26B0253 for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2016 12:16:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-pa0-f72.google.com with SMTP id pp5so603020537pac.3 for ; Mon, 08 Aug 2016 09:16:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mga03.intel.com (mga03.intel.com. [134.134.136.65]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id b64si37647350pfa.51.2016.08.08.09.15.58 for ; Mon, 08 Aug 2016 09:15:58 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 kernel 0/7] Extend virtio-balloon for fast (de)inflating & fast live migration References: <1470638134-24149-1-git-send-email-liang.z.li@intel.com> From: Dave Hansen Message-ID: <57A8B03E.4080709@intel.com> Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2016 09:15:58 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1470638134-24149-1-git-send-email-liang.z.li@intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Liang Li , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, quintela@redhat.com, dgilbert@redhat.com On 08/07/2016 11:35 PM, Liang Li wrote: > Dave Hansen suggested a new scheme to encode the data structure, > because of additional complexity, it's not implemented in v3. FWIW, I don't think it takes any additional complexity here, at least in the guest implementation side. The thing I suggested would just mean explicitly calling out that there was a single bitmap instead of implying it in the ABI. Do you think the scheme I suggested is the way to go? -- 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