From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: Proposed new "memory capacity claim"
	hypercall/feature
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 11:29:59 +0100
Message-ID: <1352111399.25014.101.camel@hastur.hellion.org.uk>
References: <50939A1502000078000A5F61@nat28.tlf.novell.com>
	<CCB94326.50E8F%keir@xen.org>
	<7481128d-3f65-4cc3-ad96-1d4e9cd25094@default>
	<20121104203532.GA11377@ocelot.phlegethon.org>
	<26f55aab-7523-4681-9a61-a5e5740d43a9@default>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Return-path: <xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org>
In-Reply-To: <26f55aab-7523-4681-9a61-a5e5740d43a9@default>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.xen.org/cgi-bin/mailman/options/xen-devel>,
	<mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xen.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Post: <mailto:xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
List-Help: <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xen.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.xen.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel>,
	<mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xen.org?subject=subscribe>
Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org
Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org
To: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Cc: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>, "Keir (Xen.org)" <keir@xen.org>, Konrad Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>, George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com>, Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>, "Tim (Xen.org)" <tim@xen.org>, "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>, George Shuklin <george.shuklin@gmail.com>, DarioFaggioli <raistlin@linux.it>, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>, Kurt Hackel <kurt.hackel@oracle.com>, Zhigang Wang <zhigang.x.wang@oracle.com>
List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org

On Mon, 2012-11-05 at 00:23 +0000, Dan Magenheimer wrote:
> There is no "free up enough memory on that host". Tmem doesn't start
> ballooning out enough memory to start the VM... the guests are
> responsible for doing the ballooning and it is _already done_.  The
> machine either has sufficient free+freeable memory or it does not;

How does one go about deciding which host in a multi thousand host
deployment to try the claim hypercall on?

Ian