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* Linux mainstream balloon driver fails to grow memory= -> maxmem=
@ 2010-08-23 23:49 Dan Magenheimer
  2010-08-24  0:50 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Dan Magenheimer @ 2010-08-23 23:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge; +Cc: xen-devel, Vasiliy G Tolstov

Hi Jeremy --

Vasiliy discovered (and I confirmed) that the mainstream
Linux balloon driver won't balloon above the initial
memory with which the Linux guest was launched.  E.g.
a 2.6.34 guest launched with these in vm.cfg:

memory=1024
maxmem=1536

displays properly in xentop, but changing target_kb
in /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0
doesn't "take" for any value greater than 1024*1024.

We tested with 2.6.34 but it even fails in RHEL6 Beta2.

Is this a known problem/bug (or maybe a feature)?

Thanks,
Dan

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2010-08-23 23:49 Linux mainstream balloon driver fails to grow memory= -> maxmem= Dan Magenheimer
2010-08-24  0:50 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-08-24  2:11   ` Dan Magenheimer
2010-08-24 11:29     ` Vasiliy G Tolstov
2010-08-24 19:56       ` Daniel Kiper
2010-08-24 20:22         ` Vasiliy G Tolstov
2010-08-25 22:44     ` Dan Magenheimer

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