Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 06 Apr 2010 01:26:11 +0300 | From | Avi Kivity <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] VMware Balloon driver |
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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.
-- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.
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