From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] fixes to stable/for-linus-3.5
Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 13:32:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120523173232.GA25974@phenom.dumpdata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FBD0A19.30701@citrix.com>
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 05:02:33PM +0100, David Vrabel wrote:
> On 21/05/12 22:42, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> >
> > The autoballoon one would try to balloon up to E820_MAX when
> > there were no dom0_mem=.. argument.
>
> I don't see this behaviour and looking at the code I don't see how it
> could. The autoballoon code only populates pages that were released so
> it won't go above xen_start_info->nr_pages.
You are right. The ballooning up seems to be done by some other piece
of code.
>
> Do you have any logs showing the problem behaviour?
I did. Let me re-run it and send it along.
>
> > The patch fixes it, and
> > is also makes the dom0_mem=1G case work better (I think?). The
> > other solution would be to use the current_reservation patch
> > I posted a while back to work-around when no dom0_mem= argument
> > is used.
>
> David
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-21 21:42 [PATCH] fixes to stable/for-linus-3.5 Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-05-21 21:42 ` [PATCH 1/2] xen/smp: unbind irqworkX when unplugging vCPUs Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-05-21 21:42 ` [PATCH 2/2] xen/setup: Work properly with 'dom0_mem=X' or with not dom0_mem Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-05-23 16:02 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH] fixes to stable/for-linus-3.5 David Vrabel
2012-05-23 16:02 ` David Vrabel
2012-05-23 17:32 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
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