From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Subject: Re: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2019 07:48:45 -0400 Message-ID: <20191006073919-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> References: <5D7EE856.2080602@intel.com> <09257686-90df-5c31-c35f-9d16fc77fee1@redhat.com> <20191003142854-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <0df87f00-5102-973b-3a7a-735e44f4ac3f@redhat.com> <20191004043446-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <30c6feba-7037-b52f-3ef4-4a5c50be0aff@redhat.com> <859eada9-d3e2-8f28-ebd6-a8cb562dbff5@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <859eada9-d3e2-8f28-ebd6-a8cb562dbff5@redhat.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org To: David Hildenbrand Cc: Tyler Sanderson , virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org On Sun, Oct 06, 2019 at 10:30:40AM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote: > Please note the "use outside of a testing or debugging environment is > not recommended". Usually you want a "soft" version of this, e.g., via > the OOM handler (so only drop parts of the cache, not all). Right. We'll need something softer I guess. By how much, I don't know. -- MST