From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-yb0-f197.google.com (mail-yb0-f197.google.com [209.85.213.197]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA35C6B02BA for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2017 12:25:04 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-yb0-f197.google.com with SMTP id j82so64208181ybg.0 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2017 09:25:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com. [209.132.183.28]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q77si3030941qki.152.2017.01.19.09.25.03 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 19 Jan 2017 09:25:04 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 kernel 0/5] Extend virtio-balloon for fast (de)inflating & fast live migration References: <1482303148-22059-1-git-send-email-liang.z.li@intel.com> <2a32f616-25a8-ba5a-f74c-d619fc8ab333@redhat.com> <20170118173139-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> From: David Hildenbrand Message-ID: Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 18:24:59 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170118173139-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: Liang Li , kvm@vger.kernel.org, virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, amit.shah@redhat.com, dave.hansen@intel.com, cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, aarcange@redhat.com, dgilbert@redhat.com, quintela@redhat.com > As long as the interface is similar, it seems to make > sense for me - why invent a completely new device that > looks very much like the old one? The only reason would be that this feature could be used independently of virtio-balloon. But this would of course only be the case, if ballooning is strictly not wanted in a configuration, or the current balloon driver gets replaced by an alternative solution. I don't have any strong feelings about this, just wanted to double check. Thanks, David > > So this boils down to whether the speedup patches are merged. > > >> -- >> >> David -- 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