RE: [PATCH v3 kernel 0/7] Extend virtio-balloon for fast (de)inflating & fast live migration

From	"Li, Liang Z" <liang.z.li@intel.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	RE: [PATCH v3 kernel 0/7] Extend virtio-balloon for fast (de)inflating & fast live migration
Date	2016-08-09 05:00 +0200
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 kernel 0/7] Extend virtio-balloon for fast (de)inflating
> & fast live migration
> 
> On 08/07/2016 11:35 PM, Liang Li wrote:
> > Dave Hansen suggested a new scheme to encode the data structure,
> > because of additional complexity, it's not implemented in v3.
> 
> FWIW, I don't think it takes any additional complexity here, at least in the
> guest implementation side.  The thing I suggested would just mean explicitly
> calling out that there was a single bitmap instead of implying it in the ABI.
> 
> Do you think the scheme I suggested is the way to go?

Yes, I think so.  And I will do that in the later version. In this V3, I just want to solve the 
issue caused by a large page bitmap in v2.

Liang

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[PATCH v3 kernel 0/7] Extend virtio-balloon for fast (de)inflating & fast live migration  Liang Li <liang.z.li@intel.com> - 2016-08-08 08:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v3 kernel 0/7] Extend virtio-balloon for fast  (de)inflating & fast live migration Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> - 2016-08-08 18:20 +0200
    RE: [PATCH v3 kernel 0/7] Extend virtio-balloon for fast  (de)inflating & fast live migration "Li, Liang Z" <liang.z.li@intel.com> - 2016-08-09 05:00 +0200

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