From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@eu.citrix.com>
To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: xend, 8MB video memory and ballooning
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:47:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080718154708.GD4456@implementation.uk.xensource.com> (raw)
Hello,
There's an issue when starting an HVM domain and quickly after, another
domain:
- xend asks the balloon driver to free enough memory for the HVM domain
plus 8MB for the video memory.
- before the HVM domain actually starts running (e.g. qemu long to
start), I start another domain, xend asks the balloon driver to free
enough memory for that other domain, but no more.
- the HVM domain eventually starts, the Cirrus VGA BIOS activates the
video LFB, and thus qemu tries to call populate physmap in order to
actually make use of the extra 8MB for the video memory.
Problem: the 8MB extra free memory has been swallowed by the other
domain...
(of course, my concern is about the device model stubdomain starting
right after the HVM domain, but I guess that may happen in other cases
too).
Samuel
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2008-07-18 15:47 Samuel Thibault [this message]
2008-07-18 15:57 ` xend, 8MB video memory and ballooning Samuel Thibault
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