[Lguest] Virtio Balloon Driver.

[Rusty Russell]

On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 03:06:42 am Gaurav Kukreja wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I and my team mate, Supriti, were working on a Virtio Balloon Driver as a
> part of our project where we had implemented Dan Magenheimer's Transcendent
> Memory on Lguest. The algorithm that we had used for deciding how much and
> when to balloon was a very crude one. It barely took the Committed AS value
> from /proc/meminfo. This would be deducted from the total memory of the
> guest, and half of that would be considered as underutilized memory. This
> underutilized memory would then be ballooned out.
> 
> This worked for the purpose of our demonstration of the project.
> 
> We are looking to submit the Virtio Balloon Driver, and the Balloon Device
> but that is a long way for us, since we have been busy with other things,
> and haven't been able to concentrate on our project for quite some time. I
> would like to know, whether the Balloon Driver might get accepted in the
> Linux Mainline. Also, how do we go about submitting the code?

Hi Guarav,

   The normal way is to post a patch here.

Note that all features can be accepted, however, even if they are well done.
The idea of lguest is to be simple and minimal, so we don't want it to have
too many features!

Thanks,
Rusty.