New virtio balloon...

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Rusty Russell <>
Date
2014-02-11T04:20:00+00:00
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New virtio balloon...
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <> writes:
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 08:44:22AM -0500, Luiz Capitulino wrote: >> I think we shouldn't rush. Actually, I'd very much appreciate if we discuss >> automatic/self ballooning calmly on a different thread. >>  >> On the hand, what does it mean not having the balloon device for v1.0? Does >> it mean that we wouldn't have a balloon driver in Linux? I'm asking this >> because there are user-space solutions out there for automatic/self >> ballooning (like MoM) and we have support for ballooning in other virt stack >> components (like in libvirt). Those guys would break w/o a balloon device.  Indeed.  My feeling at the moment is for 1.0 to relegate the current balloon device to legacy, reserve #13 for a new balloon device.  When we feel we have something solid, we can add it to the standard.  Let's discuss it further at the meeting.  Thanks, Rusty.