On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 09:42:13AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Instead of allocating a node for each page, you could use page->private
page->lru is probably better for this so splice still works
etc... (the struct page isn't visible to the guest VM so it's free to
use)
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On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 11:06:21AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 09:42:13AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > Instead of allocating a node for each page, you could use page->private
>
> page->lru is probably better for this so splice still works
> etc... (the struct pag
On Wednesday 09 January 2008 03:18:13 Avi Kivity wrote:
> Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > Do you have any suggestion on how to retrieve the IRQ of the virtio
> > device, or some other notification mechanism?
Unfortunately, irqs are logically assigned to virtio queues, not devices. Yet
configuration in
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 09:42:13AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> >Following patch introduces a KVM guest balloon driver. Communication
> >to/from the host is performed via virtio.
> >
I'll address the other comments.
> >+virtballoon.dev = vdev;
> >+init_waitqueu
Avi Kivity wrote:
Anthony Liguori wrote:
BTW, I don't think the target should be a config value. You don't
gain anything from it being in the config space and it's somewhat
unnatural for a virtio device. It makes more sense as a message to
the guest.
I disagree. The target is state, not
Anthony Liguori wrote:
BTW, I don't think the target should be a config value. You don't gain
anything from it being in the config space and it's somewhat unnatural
for a virtio device. It makes more sense as a message to the guest.
I disagree. The target is state, not an individual item
Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
Why is it taking over the irq? This is very, very wrong. A virtio
device cannot be dependent on being used on top of the virtio-pci backend.
A notification is necessary whenever the host changes the target value
in the config space. So right now this notificatio
Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 09:42:13AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
Following patch introduces a KVM guest balloon driver. Communication
to/from the host is performed via virtio.
I'll address the other comments.
+ virtballo
Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
Following patch introduces a KVM guest balloon driver. Communication
to/from the host is performed via virtio.
Next patch implements the QEMU driver and handling.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Index: linux-2.6-nv/drivers/virtio/Kconfig
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