From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tim Deegan Subject: Re: [PATCH 0 of 4 RFC] Populate-on-demand: Check pages being returned by the balloon driver Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 11:14:12 +0100 Message-ID: <20120614101412.GG82539@ocelot.phlegethon.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: George Dunlap Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org At 12:54 +0100 on 08 Jun (1339160090), George Dunlap wrote: > Populate-on-demand: Check pages being returned by the balloon driver > > This patch series is the second result of my work last summer on > decreasing fragmentation of superpages in a guests' p2m when using > populate-on-demand. > > This patch series is against 4.1; I'm posting it to get feedback on > the viability of getting a ported version of this patch into 4.2. > > As with the previous series, the patces against 4.1 have been > extensively in the XenServer testing framework and have been in use by > XenServer customers for over 9 months now. But the p2m code has > changed extensively in that time, so one could argue that the testing > doesn't give us the same degree of confidence in the patches against > 4.2 as against 4.1. I think there's a reasonable chance of getting this in for 4.2 -- any errors should at least be isolated in the PoD parts. :)