From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>
Cc: George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com>,
"xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <Stefano.Stabellini@eu.citrix.com>,
Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4 of 4] xenpaging: initial libxl support
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:38:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120111163803.GA30142@aepfle.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120111161023.GD81891@ocelot.phlegethon.org>
On Wed, Jan 11, Tim Deegan wrote:
> > Isnt that up to the host admin to decide where to take the memory from?
> > So if its acceptable to swap parts of a VM (independent from what the
> > guest OS thinks it has), so be it.
>
> Why? The _only_ reason I can imagine for wanting to use paging is when
> the balloon driver can't or won't do its job. There's no advantage to
> paging except that you can always force it to happen.
Isnt that the whole point of paging, to make it happen at will without
the guest (or the application at process level) noticing it?
Olaf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-11 16:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-02 14:45 [PATCH 0 of 4] libxl: initial support for xenpaging Olaf Hering
2011-11-02 14:45 ` [PATCH 1 of 4] xenpaging: use guests tot_pages as working target Olaf Hering
2011-11-02 14:45 ` [PATCH 2 of 4] xenpaging: watch the guests memory/target-tot_pages xenstore value Olaf Hering
2011-11-02 14:45 ` [PATCH 3 of 4] xenpaging: add cmdline interface for pager Olaf Hering
2011-11-02 14:45 ` [PATCH 4 of 4] xenpaging: initial libxl support Olaf Hering
2011-11-07 11:02 ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-11-07 12:55 ` Olaf Hering
2011-11-07 13:28 ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-11-20 18:29 ` Olaf Hering
2011-11-21 10:53 ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-11-21 15:13 ` Olaf Hering
2011-11-21 16:40 ` George Dunlap
2011-11-22 9:05 ` Ian Campbell
2011-11-22 10:58 ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-11-22 11:22 ` Olaf Hering
2011-11-22 15:48 ` George Dunlap
2012-01-09 19:21 ` Olaf Hering
2012-01-10 12:02 ` George Dunlap
2012-01-11 14:58 ` Olaf Hering
2012-01-11 16:10 ` Tim Deegan
2012-01-11 16:38 ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2012-01-11 16:58 ` Tim Deegan
2012-01-12 14:12 ` Olaf Hering
2012-01-13 11:00 ` Ian Campbell
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