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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/3] content: Document balloon feature free page reporting
On Mon, 06 Jul 2020 14:18:28 -0700
Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>
>
> Free page reporting is a feature that allows the guest to proactively
> report unused pages to the host. By making use of this feature is is
> possible to reduce the overall memory footprint of the guest in cases where
> some significant portion of the memory is idle. Add documentation for the
> free page reporting feature describing the functionality and requirements.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>
> ---
> conformance.tex | 2 +
> content.tex | 89 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> 2 files changed, 87 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
(...)
> @@ -5088,10 +5097,16 @@ \subsection{Device Initialization}\label{sec:Device Types / Memory Balloon Devic
> \item If the VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_POISON feature bit is negotiated, the
> driver updates the \field{poison_val} configuration field.
>
> +\item If the VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_REPORTING feature bit is negotiated the
s/negotiated/negotiated,/
> + reporting_vq is identified.
Again, maybe use "identify the reporting_vq", just to keep the wording
more consistent?
> +
> \item DRIVER_OK is set: device operation begins.
>
> \item If the VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_STATS_VQ feature bit is negotiated, then
> notify the device about the stats virtqueue buffer.
> +
> +\item If the VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_REPORTING feature bit is negotiated then
s/negotiated/negotiated,/
> + begin reporting free pages to the device.
> \end{enumerate}
>
> \subsection{Device Operation}\label{sec:Device Types / Memory Balloon Device / Device Operation}
(...)
Other than those nits, looks good to me.
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
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