Re: [RESEND PATCH v3 kernel 0/7] Extend virtio-balloon for fast (de)inflating & fast live migration

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Fri Oct 21 2016 - 13:25:27 EST


On 10/20/2016 11:24 PM, Liang Li wrote:
> Dave Hansen suggested a new scheme to encode the data structure,
> because of additional complexity, it's not implemented in v3.

So, what do you want done with this patch set? Do you want it applied
as-is so that we can introduce a new host/guest ABI that we must support
until the end of time? Then, we go back in a year or two and add the
newer format that addresses the deficiencies that this ABI has with a
third version?