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SubjectRe: [PATCH] VMware Balloon driver
On 04/06/2010 01:40 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 01:26:11 +0300
> Avi Kivity<avi@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>
>> On 04/06/2010 01:17 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>
>>>> The basic idea of the driver is to allow a guest system to give up
>>>> memory it isn't using so it can be reused by other virtual machines (or
>>>> the host itself).
>>>>
>>>>
>>> So... does this differ in any fundamental way from what hibernation
>>> does, via shrink_all_memory()?
>>>
>>>
>> Just the _all_ bit, and the fact that we need to report the freed page
>> numbers to the hypervisor.
>>
>>
> So... why not tweak that, rather than implementing some parallel thing?
>

That's maybe 5 lines of code. Most of the code is focused on
interpreting requests from the hypervisor and replying with the page
numbers.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function



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