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[Xen-devel] Re: Linux pvops ballooning pv only?

To: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: Linux pvops ballooning pv only?
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:49:14 +0100
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On 06/14/2010 06:12 PM, Dan Magenheimer wrote:
> I was just looking at the Linux upstream balloon driver
> and noticed that balloon_init fails if !xen_pv_domain().
> Why does ballooning not work for an HVM domain?  Is
> ballooning just missing or untested functionality for
> HVM, or is there a good technical reason why it won't work?
>   

I think its just there to prevent balloon from activating on native.  I
suspect the test could be xen_domain(), but it may need other changes to
handle the details of adding/removing pages...

    J

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