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SubjectRe: [virtio-dev] Re: [PATCH v9 2/5] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_BALLOON_CHUNKS
On 04/27/2017 07:20 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 11:03:34AM +0000, Wang, Wei W wrote:
>> Hi Michael, could you please give some feedback?
> I'm sorry, I'm not sure feedback on what you are requesting.
Oh, just some trivial things (e.g. use a field in the
header, hdr->chunks to indicate the number of chunks
in the payload) that wasn't confirmed.

I will prepare the new version with fixing the agreed issues,
and we can continue to discuss those parts if you still find
them improper.


>
> The interface looks reasonable now, even though there's
> a way to make it even simpler if we can limit chunk size
> to 2G (in fact 4G - 1). Do you think we can live with this
> limitation?
Yes, I think we can. So, is it good to change to use the
previous 64-bit chunk format (52-bit base + 12-bit size)?


>
> But the code still needs some cleanup.
>

OK. We'll also still to discuss your comments in the patch 05.

Best,
Wei

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