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Re: [Xen-devel] unstable: no ballooning

To: Ewan Mellor <ewan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] unstable: no ballooning
From: Kurt Garloff <garloff@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 10:40:17 +0200
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Ewan,

On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 02:06:13PM +0100, Ewan Mellor wrote:
> Kurt, could you please retest with today's unstable?  I have put your first
> patch in (thanks for that) and we have made some changes to the xenstore watch
> interface recently, so that may help with the second problem.

It seems to work now (tested with 7313), indeed.
Thanks for fixing.

> The idea is that the memory/target value gets written by Xend, and and the
> balloon driver holds a watch on that value in the store.  When the watch
> fires, the balloon driver should respond by setting the new target
> (drivers/xen/balloon/balloon.c:watch_target).

The kernel watches data from a userspace file?
So the kernel understands the tdb/xenstore format?
I wonder whether that's the cleanest way to implement this feature.

Best,
-- 
Kurt Garloff, Director SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.

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