linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] VMware Balloon driver

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Date:	Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:18:04 +0300
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
CC:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...are.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"pv-drivers@...are.com" <pv-drivers@...are.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] VMware Balloon driver

On 04/08/2010 08:30 AM, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
>    
>>>> 1) is not a huge amount of code, but something consistent would be
>>>> nice.  2) is something we've been missing and is a bit of an open
>>>> question/research project anyway.
>>>>          
>>> 3) Code that attempts to reclaim 2MB pages when possible
>>>        
>> Yes.  Ballooning in 4k units is a bit silly.
>>      
> Does it make sense to treat ballooning as a form of memory hotplug?
>    

It's a fine granularity form of memory hotplug, yes.

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