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SubjectRe: virtio: Add memory statistics reporting to the balloon driver (V3)
On 11/19/2009 05:58 PM, Adam Litke wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 17:22 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>
>> On 11/19/2009 05:19 PM, Adam Litke wrote:
>>
>>> Rusty and Anthony,
>>> If I've addressed all outstanding issues, please consider this patch for
>>> inclusion. Thanks.
>>>
>>> +struct virtio_balloon_stat
>>> +{
>>> + __le16 tag;
>>> + __le64 val;
>>> +};
>>> +
>>>
>>>
>> You're not doing endian conversion in the host?
>>
> No. I was following by example. For the virtio_balloon, the existing
> code is careful so that the guest always writes data in little endian.
>

I don't follow. If the guest is careful to write little-endian, surely
the host must be equally careful to read little-endian?

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function



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