From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
avi@redhat.com, Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm: add oom notifier for virtio balloon
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 19:35:44 +1030 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201010061935.45010.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101005124521.GA2602@darkstar>
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 11:15:21 pm Dave Young wrote:
> Balloon could cause guest memory oom killing and panic.
>
> Add oom notify to leak some memory and retry fill balloon after 5 minutes.
Have you tried registering a shrinker? See mm.h.
Thanks,
Rusty.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-06 9:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-05 12:45 [PATCH] kvm: add oom notifier for virtio balloon Dave Young
2010-10-06 9:05 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2010-10-06 13:50 ` Dave Young
2010-10-08 10:24 ` Dave Young
2010-10-08 13:09 ` Balbir Singh
2010-10-08 13:33 ` Dave Young
2010-10-08 15:53 ` Balbir Singh
2010-10-09 3:19 ` Dave Young
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