From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pf0-f197.google.com (mail-pf0-f197.google.com [209.85.192.197]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEEED6B0038 for ; Fri, 21 Oct 2016 13:25:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-pf0-f197.google.com with SMTP id 128so58325870pfz.1 for ; Fri, 21 Oct 2016 10:25:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mga14.intel.com (mga14.intel.com. [192.55.52.115]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ae6si2906254pad.277.2016.10.21.10.25.21 for (version=TLS1 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 21 Oct 2016 10:25:21 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH v3 kernel 0/7] Extend virtio-balloon for fast (de)inflating & fast live migration References: <1477031080-12616-1-git-send-email-liang.z.li@intel.com> From: Dave Hansen Message-ID: <580A4F81.60201@intel.com> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 10:25:21 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1477031080-12616-1-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 , mst@redhat.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, 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, pbonzini@redhat.com, cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com, amit.shah@redhat.com On 10/20/2016 11:24 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. So, what do you want done with this patch set? Do you want it applied as-is so that we can introduce a new host/guest ABI that we must support until the end of time? Then, we go back in a year or two and add the newer format that addresses the deficiencies that this ABI has with a third version? -- 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