Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] virtio_balloon: introduce migration primitives to balloon pages

2012-07-18 Thread Rafael Aquini
Howdy Andrew, Thanks for taking the time to go through this work and provide me with such good feedback. On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 03:49:08PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:50:42 -0300 > Rafael Aquini wrote: > > > Besides making balloon pages movable at allocation time and i

Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] virtio_balloon: introduce migration primitives to balloon pages

2012-07-18 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:50:42 -0300 Rafael Aquini wrote: > Besides making balloon pages movable at allocation time and introducing > the necessary primitives to perform balloon page migration/compaction, > this patch also introduces the following locking scheme to provide the > proper synchronizat

[PATCH v4 2/3] virtio_balloon: introduce migration primitives to balloon pages

2012-07-17 Thread Rafael Aquini
Besides making balloon pages movable at allocation time and introducing the necessary primitives to perform balloon page migration/compaction, this patch also introduces the following locking scheme to provide the proper synchronization and protection for struct virtio_balloon elements against conc