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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH][HVM] fix VNIF restore failure on HVMguestwit
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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH][HVM] fix VNIF restore failure on HVMguestwith heavy workload |
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Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:42:19 +0100 |
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Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Zhai, Edwin" <edwin.zhai@xxxxxxxxx>, Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Zhao, Fan" <fan.zhao@xxxxxxxxx>, Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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On 12/4/07 19:51, "Steven Hand" <Steven.Hand@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Any reason not to have the balloon driver write back to Xenstore if it's
>> used in this way. Or is it just waiting for a patch to do that?
>
> You also need xend to watch the node and update its internal structures,
> but otherwise that'd be fine.
We're not sure if this is even sensible in all cases. Should an admin memory
setting be overridable by a setting derived from the guest itself?
One sensible middle ground might be for the balloon driver to ignore the
memory-target field in xenstore if the balloon target has ever been
specified via /proc/xen/balloon. This would indicate that the guest is
taking control for its own memory setting and is a simple resolution of the
conflict over whose setting takes precedence. This might be good enough for
those people who would like us to keep the /proc/xen/balloon method (I was
considering killing it off entirely) -- I suspect people either want to
control their guest memory settings inside the guests *or* via 'xm mem-set':
not both.
-- Keir
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