Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/5] Improve balloon handling of pagesizes other than 4kiB

2018-10-16 Thread David Gibson
On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 01:26:45PM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 02:24:26PM +1100, David Gibson wrote: > > The virtio-balloon devices was never really thought out for cases > > other than 4kiB pagesize on both guest and host. It works in some > > cases, but in others

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/5] Improve balloon handling of pagesizes other than 4kiB

2018-10-12 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 02:24:26PM +1100, David Gibson wrote: > The virtio-balloon devices was never really thought out for cases > other than 4kiB pagesize on both guest and host. It works in some > cases, but in others can be ineffectual or even cause guest memory > corruption. > > This series

[Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/5] Improve balloon handling of pagesizes other than 4kiB

2018-10-11 Thread David Gibson
The virtio-balloon devices was never really thought out for cases other than 4kiB pagesize on both guest and host. It works in some cases, but in others can be ineffectual or even cause guest memory corruption. This series makes a handful of preliminary cleanups, then makes a change to safely,