Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio-spec: document block CMD and FLUSH

2010-04-21 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 02:22:58PM +0100, Paul Brook wrote: Does this mean that virtio-blk supports all three combinations? 1. FLUSH that isn't a barrier 2. FLUSH that is also a barrier 3. Barrier that is not a flush 1 is good for fsync-like operations; 2 is good for

[PATCH] virtio: Fix GFP flags passed from the virtio balloon driver

2010-04-21 Thread Rusty Russell
From: Balbir Singh bal...@linux.vnet.ibm.com The virtio balloon driver can dig into the reservation pools of the OS to satisfy a balloon request. This is not advisable and other balloon drivers (drivers/xen/balloon.c) avoid this as well. The patch also adds changes to avoid printing a warning if