From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933763Ab2EWRjL (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 May 2012 13:39:11 -0400 Received: from rcsinet15.oracle.com ([148.87.113.117]:18811 "EHLO rcsinet15.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760616Ab2EWRjJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 May 2012 13:39:09 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 13:32:32 -0400 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk To: David Vrabel Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] fixes to stable/for-linus-3.5 Message-ID: <20120523173232.GA25974@phenom.dumpdata.com> References: <1337636562-9579-1-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com> <4FBD0A19.30701@citrix.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4FBD0A19.30701@citrix.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Source-IP: ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/