Other problem is that there are drivers that do not use
adjust_managed_page_count().
Which ones? Do we care?
VMWare and Virtio balloon drivers. I recently proposed to unify them and
the objection was that it would break existing users - which is valid so
we must care i guess.
I'm confused,
On 14.10.22 14:50, Alexander Atanasov wrote:
Hello,
On 11.10.22 12:23, David Hildenbrand wrote:
Sounds to me that all you want is some notifier to be called from
adjust_managed_page_count(). What am I missing?
Notifier will act as an accumulator to report size of change and it
will make thing
Sounds to me that all you want is some notifier to be called from
adjust_managed_page_count(). What am I missing?
Notifier will act as an accumulator to report size of change and it will make
things easier for the drivers and users wrt locking.
Notifier is similar to the memory hotplug notifier
On Oct 10, 2022, at 12:24 AM, Alexander Atanasov
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 10.10.22 9:18, Nadav Amit wrote:
>> On Oct 7, 2022, at 3:58 AM, Alexander Atanasov
>> wrote:
>>> So all balloon drivers give large amount of RAM on boot , then inflate the
>>> balloon. But this places have already been i
On Oct 7, 2022, at 3:58 AM, Alexander Atanasov
wrote:
> On 7.10.22 0:07, Nadav Amit wrote:
I was looking through the series and I did not see actual users of the
notifier. Usually, it is not great to build an API without users.
>>>
>>>
>>> You are right. I hope to get some feed
On Oct 6, 2022, at 12:34 AM, Alexander Atanasov
wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> On 5.10.22 20:25, Nadav Amit wrote:
>> On Oct 5, 2022, at 2:01 AM, Alexander Atanasov
>> wrote:
>>> Add counters to be updated by the balloon drivers.
>>> Create balloon notifier to propagate changes.
>> I missed the other
On Oct 5, 2022, at 2:01 AM, Alexander Atanasov
wrote:
> Add counters to be updated by the balloon drivers.
> Create balloon notifier to propagate changes.
I missed the other patches before (including this one). Sorry, but next
time, please cc me.
I was looking through the series and I did not
