From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@ORACLE.COM>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com,
Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>,
Konrad Wilk <konrad.wilk@ORACLE.COM>,
Lars Kurth <lars.kurth.xen@gmail.com>,
Kurt Hackel <kurt.hackel@ORACLE.COM>, Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>,
Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andres@lagarcavilla.org>
Subject: Re: Pointed questions re Xen memory overcommit
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:38:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120229203839.GA16937@aepfle.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e37faafb-c01c-4f34-8794-9b178d5dc9a6@default>
On Wed, Feb 29, Dan Magenheimer wrote:
> > From: Olaf Hering [mailto:olaf@aepfle.de]
> > Then I think that not all guests are capable enough to contribute their
> > free pages. And if host memory is low, then things like swapping can
> > solve the problem at hand.
>
> Yes, as George points out, there will always be legacy guests
> for which swapping can solve a problem.
So thats the motivation.
Olaf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-29 20:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-24 20:53 Pointed questions re Xen memory overcommit Dan Magenheimer
2012-02-24 21:42 ` Olaf Hering
2012-02-27 23:40 ` Dan Magenheimer
2012-02-28 13:54 ` George Dunlap
2012-02-28 21:32 ` Dan Magenheimer
2012-02-29 10:43 ` Olaf Hering
2012-02-29 17:26 ` Dan Magenheimer
2012-02-29 18:00 ` Andres Lagar-Cavilla
2012-02-29 18:31 ` Dan Magenheimer
2012-02-29 19:11 ` George Dunlap
2012-02-29 20:26 ` Dan Magenheimer
2012-03-01 16:08 ` George Dunlap
2012-03-01 20:34 ` Dan Magenheimer
2012-02-29 19:22 ` Olaf Hering
2012-02-29 20:30 ` Dan Magenheimer
2012-02-29 20:38 ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2012-02-27 19:51 ` Tim Deegan
2012-02-27 23:50 ` Dan Magenheimer
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20120229203839.GA16937@aepfle.de \
--to=olaf@aepfle.de \
--cc=Ian.Campbell@citrix.com \
--cc=andres@lagarcavilla.org \
--cc=dan.magenheimer@ORACLE.COM \
--cc=konrad.wilk@ORACLE.COM \
--cc=kurt.hackel@ORACLE.COM \
--cc=lars.kurth.xen@gmail.com \
--cc=tim@xen.org \
--cc=xen-devel@lists.xensource.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.