Re: [PATCH v3] libxl: Wait for ballooning if free memory is increasing

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>]

On Mon, 2015-02-02 at 08:17 -0700, Mike Latimer wrote:
> On Monday, February 02, 2015 02:35:39 PM Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Fri, 2015-01-30 at 14:01 -0700, Mike Latimer wrote:
> > > During domain startup, all required memory ballooning must complete
> > > within a maximum window of 33 seconds (3 retries, 11 seconds of delay).
> > > If not, domain creation is aborted with a 'failed to free memory' error.
> > > 
> > > In order to accommodate large domains or slower hardware (which require
> > > substantially longer to balloon memory) the free memory process should
> > > continue retrying if the amount of free memory is increasing on each
> > > iteration of the loop.
> > 
> > Sorry for not spotting this earlier, but to accept a patch into the Xen
> > code base we need a Signed-off-by:
> > http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Submitting_Xen_Patches#Signing_off_a_patch
> > 
> > You can provide one in this thread rather than resending if that is more
> > convenient.
> 
> Sorry, I should have caught that myself.  If's it's okay to provide it here:
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mike Latimer <mlatimer@suse.com>

Thanks, applied.