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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Cc: "Xen-Devel (xen-devel@lists.xensource.com)"
	<xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: Linux pvops ballooning pv only?
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:49:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C17F55A.2060306@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ca22241e-65fe-4e0e-ba47-d9dfa10037da@default>

On 06/14/2010 06:12 PM, Dan Magenheimer wrote:
> I was just looking at the Linux upstream balloon driver
> and noticed that balloon_init fails if !xen_pv_domain().
> Why does ballooning not work for an HVM domain?  Is
> ballooning just missing or untested functionality for
> HVM, or is there a good technical reason why it won't work?
>   

I think its just there to prevent balloon from activating on native.  I
suspect the test could be xen_domain(), but it may need other changes to
handle the details of adding/removing pages...

    J

      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-06-15 21:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-14 17:12 Linux pvops ballooning pv only? Dan Magenheimer
2010-06-15 17:52 ` AP Xen
2010-06-15 21:49 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]

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