Re: [virtio] [OASIS Issue Tracker] Created: (VIRTIO-28) Implement new balloon device (ID 13)

[Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 11:31:58AM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
> Rusty Russell <rusty@au1.ibm.com> writes:
> > But it makes sense to put the page size in each request.  A bit more
> > painful to implement, since the driver can't know in advance that it
> > doesn't support a request.
>
> Actually, I changed my mind.
>
> It isn't useful to ask for different size pages.  QEMU currently does
> all-or-nothing.  Even if it did a mix of both, it would need to tell the
> guest which areas were which (I really want one of *these* huge pages).
>
> That's too much complexity for a feature which doesn't exist.  So I
> prefer the current single-page-size model.

If we assume that we could add this feature in the future
then it is OK for me.

Daniel