From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pa0-f71.google.com (mail-pa0-f71.google.com [209.85.220.71]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3664D6B0282 for ; Mon, 24 Oct 2016 21:14:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-pa0-f71.google.com with SMTP id fl2so5747043pad.7 for ; Mon, 24 Oct 2016 18:14:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mga05.intel.com (mga05.intel.com. [192.55.52.43]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i89si18053251pfj.295.2016.10.24.18.14.08 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 24 Oct 2016 18:14:08 -0700 (PDT) From: "Li, Liang Z" Subject: RE: [RESEND PATCH v3 kernel 1/7] virtio-balloon: rework deflate to add page to a list Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 01:14:04 +0000 Message-ID: References: <1477031080-12616-1-git-send-email-liang.z.li@intel.com> <1477031080-12616-2-git-send-email-liang.z.li@intel.com> <580E3ACD.1080906@intel.com> In-Reply-To: <580E3ACD.1080906@intel.com> Content-Language: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: "Hansen, Dave" , "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: > > Will allow faster notifications using a bitmap down the road. > > balloon_pfn_to_page() can be removed because it's useless. >=20 > This is a pretty terse description of what's going on here. Could you tr= y to > elaborate a bit? What *is* the current approach? Why does it not work > going forward? What do you propose instead? Why is it better? Sure. The description will be more clear if it's described as you suggest. = Thanks! Liang=20 -- 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