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SubjectRe: [PATCH] VMware Balloon driver
On 04/06/2010 01:17 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> The basic idea of the driver is to allow a guest system to give up
>> memory it isn't using so it can be reused by other virtual machines (or
>> the host itself).
>>
> So... does this differ in any fundamental way from what hibernation
> does, via shrink_all_memory()?
>

Just the _all_ bit, and the fact that we need to report the freed page
numbers to the hypervisor.

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Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.



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