Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC 1/2] misc: Add vboxguest driver for Virtual Box Guest integration | From | Hans de Goede <> | Date | Mon, 21 Aug 2017 14:04:49 +0200 |
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Hi,
On 21-08-17 13:43, Hans de Goede wrote:
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> I'm also thinking that under Linux since we never use userspace to > alloc memory for the balloon, we don't need to involve userspace at > all, the drivers interrupt handler could detect the event that the > host wants to change the balloonsize itself and start a workqueue > item which then asks for what the new size should be and do the > adjustment all inside the kernel. I think that will even lead to > simpler code as we no longer need to track the balloon userspace > owner and do reclaim when it dies. > > Typing this out I really see no reason to not do this inside the > kernel, so I think I'm going to implement that right away / for > the [RFC v2] I plan to post later today or tomorrow.
Done:
https://github.com/jwrdegoede/vboxguest/commit/2920882cb0ce9af11a843affc58d4a08ef47e16b
Regards,
Hans
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