Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 4 authors, 2012-09-25

Re: [PATCH v10 0/5] make balloon pages movable by compaction

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Date: 2012-09-25 01:17:25

Possibly related (same subject, not in this thread)

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 03:15:31PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
How can a patchset reach v10 and have zero Reviewed-by's?
I think the problem is, this adds an API between mm and balloon
device that is pretty complex: consider that previously we literally
only used alloc_page, __free_page and page->lru field.

So you end up with a problem: mm bits don't do anything
by themselves so mm people aren't very interested and
don't know about virtio anyway, while
we virtio device driver people lack a clue about compaction.

Having said that I think I'm getting my head about some of the issues so
I commented and the patchset is hopefully getting there.

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MST
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