[PATCH v3 0/9] Third revision of the performance improvment patch to the VMWare balloon driver

[Philip P. Moltmann]

This is the third revision fo the path to the VMWare balloon driver. The original
was send to linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 4/14/15 10.29 am PST. Please refer to
the original change for an overview.

v1:
- Initial implementation
v2
- Address suggestions by Dmitry Totoknov
  - Use UINT_MAX as "infitite" rate instead of special casing -1
v3:
- Change commit comment for step 6 to better explain what impact ballooning has
  on the VM performance.

Thanks
Philip 

Philip P. Moltmann (5):
  VMware balloon: Show capabilities of balloon and resulting
    capabilities in the debug-fs node.
  VMware balloon: Do not limit the amount of frees and allocations in
    non-sleep mode.
  VMware balloon: Support 2m page ballooning.
  VMware balloon: Treat init like reset
  VMware balloon: Enable notification via VMCI

Xavier Deguillard (4):
  VMware balloon: partially inline vmballoon_reserve_page.
  VMware balloon: Add support for balloon capabilities.
  VMware balloon: add batching to the vmw_balloon.
  VMware balloon: Update balloon target on each lock/unlock.

 drivers/misc/Kconfig       |   2 +-
 drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c | 954 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 2 files changed, 717 insertions(+), 239 deletions(-)

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