Re: [PATCH v6 kernel 0/5] Extend virtio-balloon for fast (de)inflating & fast live migration

[David Hildenbrand]

> As long as the interface is similar, it seems to make
> sense for me - why invent a completely new device that
> looks very much like the old one?

The only reason would be that this feature could be used independently
of virtio-balloon. But this would of course only be the case, if
ballooning is strictly not wanted in a configuration, or the current
balloon driver gets replaced by an alternative solution.

I don't have any strong feelings about this, just wanted to double check.

Thanks,

David

> 
> So this boils down to whether the speedup patches are merged.
> 
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>> David