Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 1/2] conf: introduce 'deflate-on-oom' attribute for memballoon device

2015-12-18 Thread Dmitry Andreev
On 17.12.2015 23:25, John Ferlan wrote: On 12/14/2015 06:35 AM, Dmitry Andreev wrote: Excessive memory balloon inflation can cause invocation of OOM-killer, when Linux is under severe memory pressure. QEMU memballoon device has a feature to release some memory at the last moment before some

Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 1/2] conf: introduce 'deflate-on-oom' attribute for memballoon device

2015-12-18 Thread John Ferlan
On 12/18/2015 08:20 AM, Dmitry Andreev wrote: > > > On 17.12.2015 23:25, John Ferlan wrote: >> >> >> On 12/14/2015 06:35 AM, Dmitry Andreev wrote: >>> Excessive memory balloon inflation can cause invocation of OOM-killer, >>> when Linux is under severe memory pressure. QEMU memballoon device

Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 1/2] conf: introduce 'deflate-on-oom' attribute for memballoon device

2015-12-17 Thread John Ferlan
On 12/14/2015 06:35 AM, Dmitry Andreev wrote: > Excessive memory balloon inflation can cause invocation of OOM-killer, > when Linux is under severe memory pressure. QEMU memballoon device > has a feature to release some memory at the last moment before some > process will be get killed by

[libvirt] [PATCH 1/2] conf: introduce 'deflate-on-oom' attribute for memballoon device

2015-12-14 Thread Dmitry Andreev
Excessive memory balloon inflation can cause invocation of OOM-killer, when Linux is under severe memory pressure. QEMU memballoon device has a feature to release some memory at the last moment before some process will be get killed by OOM-killer. Introduced attribute allows to enable or disable