Re: [RESEND PATCH v3 kernel 0/7] Extend virtio-balloon for fast (de)inflating & fast live migration

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Fri Oct 21 2016 - 15:44:44 EST


On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 10:25:21AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 10/20/2016 11:24 PM, Liang Li wrote:
> > Dave Hansen suggested a new scheme to encode the data structure,
> > because of additional complexity, it's not implemented in v3.
>
> So, what do you want done with this patch set? Do you want it applied
> as-is so that we can introduce a new host/guest ABI that we must support
> until the end of time? Then, we go back in a year or two and add the
> newer format that addresses the deficiencies that this ABI has with a
> third version?
>

Exactly my questions.