Re: [PATCH] VMware Balloon driver

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

On 04/06/2010 09:32 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Yeah.  If we wanted commonality, we could make a balloon_core.c that 
> contains the common code.  IMO that's premature, but perhaps there's 
> some meat there (like suspend/resume support and /proc//sys interface).

I think it would be useful to have common:

  1. User and kernel mode ABIs for controlling ballooning.  It assumes
     that the different balloon implementations are sufficiently
     similar in semantics.   (Once there's a kernel ABI, adding a
     common user ABI is trivial.)
  2. Policy driving the ballooning driver, at least from the guest
     side.  That is, some good metrics from the vm subsystem about
     memory pressure (both positive and negative), and something to
     turn those metrics into requests to the balloon driver.

1) is not a huge amount of code, but something consistent would be 
nice.  2) is something we've been missing and is a bit of an open 
question/research project anyway.

    J
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