Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:28:00 +0300 | From | Avi Kivity <> | Subject | Re: [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.
-- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
| |