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Re: [PATCH] Re: tmem on 4.1 (was [Xen-devel] Re: Freeze schedule)

To: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx>, Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: tmem on 4.1 (was [Xen-devel] Re: Freeze schedule)
From: Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 07:17:41 +0000
Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
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On 19/01/2011 21:38, "Dan Magenheimer" <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Just to check again, has anyone actually seen a problem with
> tmem enabled by default recently?  I agree that there is still
> theoretically a problem, but there is the same problem with
> normal guests doing lots of ballooning as well.  Also, note
> that even if tmem defaults to enabled, the problem is impossible
> unless a guest enables tmem (or, in the case of SuSE, dom0).
> And even if a guest does enable tmem, the problem manifested
> largely due to shadow pages using order>0 (now fixed?)...
> failure on domain creation can happen for many reasons and
> is much less of an issue, true?
> 
> Feel free to shoot me down with more evidence, but I have
> to at least provide token resistance to this patch.  Distros
> might certainly choose to disable it to avoid any risk at
> all, but turning it off anymore seems overkill for xen.org
> open source Xen IMHO.

Tbh I was wondering whether anyone is really using it in earnest. No
upstream kernels support it? If noone's using it, who really cares whether
it's enabled or not, apart from its author.

 -- Keir

> Dan



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