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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] increase initial memory reservation for stubdom

To: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] increase initial memory reservation for stubdom based HVM domains
From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:44:22 +0100
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Keir Fraser, le Thu 15 Jan 2009 17:34:26 +0000, a écrit :
> Doesn't stubdom itself cause the auto-ballooner to be run?

Yes. (and the issue was that here the auto-ballooner doesn't know that
qemu hasn't taken the 8MB extra ballooned memory for video memory yet)

> Could stubdom add on the extra headroom of the guest its servicing
> when it requests ballooning? I don't know whether that would be
> clearer/cleaner than your current patch...

I don't know how that could be done, but it seems better to me.

Samuel

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