From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: George Dunlap Subject: Re: [PATCH 0 of 4 RFC] Populate-on-demand: Check pages being returned by the balloon driver Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 12:58:48 +0100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com Cc: george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org 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 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. =A0But 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. > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@lists.xen.org > http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel