[Cc Konstantin - the patch is
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181114211704.6381-3-da...@redhat.com]
On Thu 15-11-18 10:21:13, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 15.11.18 03:07, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 11:49:15PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> >> On 14.11.18 23:23, Matthew Wilcox
On 15.11.18 03:07, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 11:49:15PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>> On 14.11.18 23:23, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>>> On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 10:17:00PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
Rename PG_balloon to PG_offline. This is an indicator that the page is
On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 11:49:15PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 14.11.18 23:23, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 10:17:00PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> >> Rename PG_balloon to PG_offline. This is an indicator that the page is
> >> logically offline, the content stale
On 14.11.18 23:23, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 10:17:00PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>> Rename PG_balloon to PG_offline. This is an indicator that the page is
>> logically offline, the content stale and that it should not be touched
>> (e.g. a hypervisor would have to alloc
On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 10:17:00PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> Rename PG_balloon to PG_offline. This is an indicator that the page is
> logically offline, the content stale and that it should not be touched
> (e.g. a hypervisor would have to allocate backing storage in order for the
> guest t
PG_balloon was introduced to implement page migration/compaction for pages
inflated in virtio-balloon. Nowadays, it is only a marker that a page is
part of virtio-balloon and therefore logically offline.
We also want to make use of this flag in other balloon drivers - for
inflated pages or when on
