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New virtio balloon...


"Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email protected]> writes: > On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 08:44:22AM -0500, Luiz Capitulino wrote: >> I think we shouldn't rush. Actually, I'd very much appreciate if we discuss >> automatic/self ballooning calmly on a different thread. >> >> On the hand, what does it mean not having the balloon device for v1.0? Does >> it mean that we wouldn't have a balloon driver in Linux? I'm asking this >> because there are user-space solutions out there for automatic/self >> ballooning (like MoM) and we have support for ballooning in other virt stack >> components (like in libvirt). Those guys would break w/o a balloon device. Indeed. My feeling at the moment is for 1.0 to relegate the current balloon device to legacy, reserve #13 for a new balloon device. When we feel we have something solid, we can add it to the standard. Let's discuss it further at the meeting. Thanks, Rusty.

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