linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] virtio-balloon spec: provide a version of the "silent deflate" feature that works

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Message-ID: <504B1EA6.8050304@redhat.com>
Date:	Sat, 08 Sep 2012 12:32:06 +0200
From:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
CC:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>, fes@...gle.com,
	aarcange@...hat.com, riel@...hat.com, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	yvugenfi@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	mikew@...gle.com, yinghan@...gle.com,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio-balloon spec: provide a version of the "silent
 deflate" feature that works

Il 08/09/2012 07:06, Rusty Russell ha scritto:
>> > Do we really know there are no hypervisors implementing it?
> As much as can be known.  Qemu doesn't, lkvm doesn't.
> 

However, there are cases in which it would be nice to have it.
Repurposing the bit to how it has been used so far (as a guest->host
communication bit, not host->guest) is a better choice.

Paolo
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