Re: [PATCH RFC v4 00/13] virtio-mem: paravirtualized memory

From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Date: Fri Dec 13 2019 - 15:15:30 EST


On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 06:11:24PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> This series is based on latest linux-next. The patches are located at:
> https://github.com/davidhildenbrand/linux.git virtio-mem-rfc-v4
Heya!

Would there be by any chance a virtio-spec git tree somewhere?

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> 5. Future work
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> The separate patches contain a lot of future work items. One of the next
> steps is to make memory unplug more likely to succeed - currently, there
> are no guarantees on how much memory can get unplugged again. I have


Or perhaps tell the caller why we can't and let them sort it out?
For example: "Application XYZ is mlocked. Can't offload'.