linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 0/9] Second revision of the performance improvement patch to the VMware balloon driver.

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Date:	Thu, 11 Jun 2015 13:42:55 -0700
From:	"Philip P. Moltmann" <moltmann@...are.com>
To:	dmitry.torokhov@...il.com
Cc:	"Philip P. Moltmann" <moltmann@...are.com>,
	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	xdeguillard@...are.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	pv-drivers@...are.com
Subject: [PATCH v2 0/9] Second revision of the performance improvement patch to the VMware balloon driver.

This is the second revision of the path to the VMware balloon driver. The original
was send to linux-kernl@...r.kernel.org on 4/14/2015 10.29 am PST. Please refer to
the original change for an overview.

This change addresses concern by Dmitry Totokhov.

The patches in the patch series are:

Philip P. Moltmann (5):
  VMware balloon: Show capabilities of balloon and resulting
    capabilities in the debug-fs node.
  VMware balloon: Do not limit the amount of frees and allocations in
    non-sleep mode.
  VMware balloon: Support 2m page ballooning.
  VMware balloon: Treat init like reset
  VMware balloon: Enable notification via VMCI

Xavier Deguillard (4):
  VMware balloon: partially inline vmballoon_reserve_page.
  VMware balloon: Add support for balloon capabilities.
  VMware balloon: add batching to the vmw_balloon.
  VMware balloon: Update balloon target on each lock/unlock.

 drivers/misc/Kconfig       |   2 +-
 drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c | 954 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 2 files changed, 717 insertions(+), 239 deletions(-)

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2.4.3

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