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Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:05:28 +1030 From: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> To: virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, virtualization@...ts.osdl.org, akpm@...l.org, nickpiggin@...oo.com.au, frankeh@...son.ibm.com, riel@...hat.com, hugh@...itas.com Subject: Re: [patch 0/6] Guest page hinting version 7. 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 from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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