Re: [PATCH v2] xen: fix booting ballooned down hvm guest

2017-10-26 Thread HW42
Juergen Gross: > Commit 96edd61dcf44362d3ef0bed1a5361e0ac7886a63 ("xen/balloon: don't > online new memory initially") introduced a regression when booting a > HVM domain with memory less than mem-max: instead of ballooning down > immediately the system would try to use the memory up to mem-max > re

Re: [PATCH] xen: fix booting ballooned down hvm guest

2017-10-24 Thread HW42
ally we have to trigger the ballooning process at once. >>>>> >>>>> Cc: # 4.13 >>>>> Fixes: 96edd61dcf44362d3ef0bed1a5361e0ac7886a63 ("xen/balloon: don't >>>>>online new memory initially") >>>>> >>>&

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3] xen/balloon: don't online new memory initially

2017-10-02 Thread HW42
Juergen Gross: > When setting up the Xenstore watch for the memory target size the new > watch will fire at once. Don't try to reach the configured target size > by onlining new memory in this case, as the current memory size will > be smaller in almost all cases due to e.g. BIOS reserved pages. >