VMware balloon: Enable notification via VMCI
authorPhilip P. Moltmann <moltmann@vmware.com>
Thu, 6 Aug 2015 22:18:01 +0000 (15:18 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 4 Oct 2015 11:59:11 +0000 (12:59 +0100)
commit48e3d668b7902cca3c61e9e2098e7f76b5646c28
treef4d2e6cb08d8f3abd22cc5bf95c535ec8b242420
parentd7568c130d0d0ff1fc5b364fc879b91f108a3d54
VMware balloon: Enable notification via VMCI

Get notified immediately when a balloon target is set, instead of waiting for
up to one second.

The up-to 1 second gap could be long enough to cause swapping inside of the
VM that receives the VM.

Acked-by: Andy King <acking@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Xavier Deguillard <xdeguillard@vmware.com>
Tested-by: Siva Sankar Reddy B <sankars@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/misc/Kconfig
drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c