Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Make "xm mem-set" be lower bound on domX-min-mem

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 20 May 2006, at 22:27, Gareth S Bestor wrote:

>  An absolute limit might be easier to handle - and expose to users - 
> than a relative one, especially up-front in CIM where it exposes 
> min/max limits on resource allocations. Or is it really <2% of 
> whatever the original memory allocation is when things go to 
> kabluwey... ?
Unfortunately so: some critical kernel data structures are sized 
proportional to the maximum amount of memory that may be allocated to 
the guest. These data structures do not shrink as you remove memory 
from the guest.
 -- Keir


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