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    SubjectRe: [PATCH v16.1 6/9] virtio-balloon: Add support for providing free page reports to host
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    > Am 11.02.2020 um 17:33 schrieb Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>:
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    > On Tue, 2020-02-11 at 16:13 +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
    >>>> AFAIKs, the guest could inflate/deflate (esp. temporarily) and
    >>>> communicate via "actual" the actual balloon size as he sees it.
    >>>
    >>> OK so you want hinted but unused pages counted, and reported
    >>> in "actual"? That's a vmexit before each page use ...
    >>
    >> No, not at all. I rather meant, that it is unclear how
    >> inflation/deflation requests and "actual" *could* interact. Especially
    >> if we would consider free page reporting as some way of inflation
    >> (+immediate deflation) triggered by the guest. IMHO, we would not touch
    >> "actual" in that case.
    >>
    >> But as I said, I am totally fine with keeping it as is in this patch.
    >> IOW not glue free page reporting to inflation/deflation but let it act
    >> like something different with its own semantics (and document these
    >> properly).
    >>
    >
    > Okay, so before I post v17 am I leaving the virtio-balloon changes as they
    > were then?

    I‘d say yes :)
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