[PATCH V2 1/1] Drivers: hv: Add Hyper-V balloon driver

2012-11-14 Thread K. Y. Srinivasan
Add the basic balloon driver. Windows hosts dynamically manage the guest memory allocation via a combination memory hot add and ballooning. Memory hot add is used to grow the guest memory upto the maximum memory that can be allocatted to the guest. Ballooning is used to both shrink as well as

[PATCH V2 1/1] Drivers: hv: Add Hyper-V balloon driver

2012-11-14 Thread K. Y. Srinivasan
Add the basic balloon driver. Windows hosts dynamically manage the guest memory allocation via a combination memory hot add and ballooning. Memory hot add is used to grow the guest memory upto the maximum memory that can be allocatted to the guest. Ballooning is used to both shrink as well as