Re: Balloon driver.

[Eric Haszlakiewicz <erh%nimenees.com@localhost>]

On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 09:19:57AM +0530, Cherry G. Mathew wrote:
> On 28 June 2009 19:56, Cherry G. Mathew <cherry.g.mathew%gmail.com@localhost> 
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Quick note to say that I hacked up a little balloon driver from
> > scratch for fun. It just about works on a XEN3 dom0 but that's it. I'm
> > posting it here as an FYI as suggested by jym@
> 
> jym@ and I made a few more changes to this.
> Have a look here:
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/cherry/balloon/
> 
> Any feedback would be much appreciated. If things go well, I'm hoping
> to commit this marked "EXPERIMENTAL" "soon".

A little more verbose comment in the source to explain how this is actually
used might be nice.  Is there a man page?

I'm guessing this is to implement ballooning as described at:
http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi02/tech/waldspurger/waldspurger_html/node6.html

eric