Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 22/23] mm: rename CONFIG_MEMORY_BALLOON -> CONFIG_BALLOON

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 11:53:39 -0500

On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 05:33:56PM +0100, David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) wrote:
> I'll note that the spec also defines a "DEVICE ID of Virtio Cpu balloon device as 47". But
> no changes really happened in the spec with that for the last two years (only the
> id is reserved).
> 
> 
> [1] https://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.4/virtio-v1.4.html#x1-4260001

Maybe that's a good reason to keep calling it "memory balloon".

And hey, there's also the floating, pops easily kind and maybe someone
will use those with linux in some way :)

> -- 
> Cheers
> David