From: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Michael Thayer <michael.thayer@oracle.com>,
"Knut St . Osmundsen" <knut.osmundsen@oracle.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux FS-devel Mailing List <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/2] misc: Add vboxguest driver for Virtual Box Guest integration
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 14:04:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ac6abec4-6174-92b7-60fc-5ba83f8940d5@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ed0a3765-d169-85fd-ba36-2fa2d3972fa2@redhat.com>
Hi,
On 21-08-17 13:43, Hans de Goede wrote:
<snip>
> I'm also thinking that under Linux since we never use userspace to
> alloc memory for the balloon, we don't need to involve userspace at
> all, the drivers interrupt handler could detect the event that the
> host wants to change the balloonsize itself and start a workqueue
> item which then asks for what the new size should be and do the
> adjustment all inside the kernel. I think that will even lead to
> simpler code as we no longer need to track the balloon userspace
> owner and do reclaim when it dies.
>
> Typing this out I really see no reason to not do this inside the
> kernel, so I think I'm going to implement that right away / for
> the [RFC v2] I plan to post later today or tomorrow.
Done:
https://github.com/jwrdegoede/vboxguest/commit/2920882cb0ce9af11a843affc58d4a08ef47e16b
Regards,
Hans
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-21 12:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-11 13:23 [RFC 0/2] Add Virtual Box vboxguest and vboxsf guest drivers to the mainline kernel Hans de Goede
2017-08-11 13:23 ` [RFC 1/2] misc: Add vboxguest driver for Virtual Box Guest integration Hans de Goede
2017-08-11 21:23 ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-08-12 21:56 ` Hans de Goede
2017-08-12 23:22 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-08-14 7:38 ` Hans de Goede
2017-08-14 9:30 ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-08-14 12:15 ` Hans de Goede
2017-08-21 11:43 ` Hans de Goede
2017-08-21 12:04 ` Hans de Goede [this message]
2017-08-11 13:23 ` [RFC 2/2] fs: Add VirtualBox guest shared folder (vboxsf) support Hans de Goede
2017-08-11 15:44 ` [RFC 0/2] Add Virtual Box vboxguest and vboxsf guest drivers to the mainline kernel Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-08-11 16:02 ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-08-11 16:09 ` Hans de Goede
2017-08-11 16:32 ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-08-11 17:43 ` Hans de Goede
2017-08-11 19:34 ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-08-25 11:53 ` Hans de Goede
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