Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] re-enable balloon stats

[Luiz Capitulino]

On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 19:39:40 +0000
Dietmar Maurer <address@hidden> wrote:

> > > > but it would silently fail if the feature is never negotiated (as
> > > > you said above).
> > >
> > > Why don't we raise the error when we query the values?
> > 
> > Hmm, that's a good idea.
> > 
> > Only small nit is that, today old stats will remain available to be queried 
> > even
> > if you disable the timer. If we do what you suggest, old stats won't be
> > available if the module is unloaded (well, I *guess* the guest will unset 
> > the
> > feature bit on module removal).
> 
> What is the problem with that? It would be no problem to simulate the 
> old behavior, but why do you want that? 

I actually just thought that it's a nice to have.