Re: [PATCH 0 of 4 RFC] Populate-on-demand: Check pages being returned by the balloon driver

[George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com>]

Hmm, a mistake in my command line (and the lack of -n) sent two
extraneous patches.  Please look at just patches 1 and 2, and ignore 3
and 4.

Thanks,
 -George

On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 12:54 PM, George Dunlap
<george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
> Populate-on-demand: Check pages being returned by the balloon driver
>
> This patch series is the second result of my work last summer on
> decreasing fragmentation of superpages in a guests' p2m when using
> populate-on-demand.
>
> This patch series is against 4.1; I'm posting it to get feedback on
> the viability of getting a ported version of this patch into 4.2.
>
> As with the previous series, the patces against 4.1 have been
> extensively in the XenServer testing framework and have been in use by
> XenServer customers for over 9 months now.  But the p2m code has
> changed extensively in that time, so one could argue that the testing
> doesn't give us the same degree of confidence in the patches against
> 4.2 as against 4.1.
>
> Looking at it now, there are a number of ugly bits -- "#if 0" and
> such; please overlook this for now, as it will all be cleaned up as
> part of the porting process.
>
> If this looks good, I'll do the work of porting and testing it before
> posting it again.
>
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