From 95f9d4290c5f8d6af5cba4e7b5e8a8acda65af16 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Han Han Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 10:17:05 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] news: qemu: Introduce virtio free page reporting feature Signed-off-by: Han Han Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani --- NEWS.rst | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst index 92c3a25184..9af82c7705 100644 --- a/NEWS.rst +++ b/NEWS.rst @@ -1204,6 +1204,13 @@ v6.9.0 (2020-11-02) the ``--validate`` option to the ``cpu-compare`` and ``hypervisor-cpu-compare`` subcommands. + * qemu: Introduce virtio-balloon free page reporting feature + + Introduce the optional attribute ``free-page-reporting`` for virtio + memballoon device. It enables/disables the ability of the QEMU virtio + memory balloon to return unused pages back to the hypervisor. QEMU 5.1 + and newer support this feature. + * **Improvements** * qemu: Make 'cbitpos' & 'reducedPhysBits' attrs optional