[Xen-devel] [PATCH v3] libxl: Wait for ballooning if free memory is increasing

2015-01-30 Thread Mike Latimer
During domain startup, all required memory ballooning must complete within a maximum window of 33 seconds (3 retries, 11 seconds of delay). If not, domain creation is aborted with a 'failed to free memory' error. In order to accommodate large domains or slower hardware (which require substantially

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3] libxl: Wait for ballooning if free memory is increasing

2015-02-02 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2015-01-30 at 14:01 -0700, Mike Latimer wrote: > During domain startup, all required memory ballooning must complete > within a maximum window of 33 seconds (3 retries, 11 seconds of delay). > If not, domain creation is aborted with a 'failed to free memory' error. > > In order to accommod

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3] libxl: Wait for ballooning if free memory is increasing

2015-02-02 Thread Mike Latimer
On Monday, February 02, 2015 02:35:39 PM Ian Campbell wrote: > On Fri, 2015-01-30 at 14:01 -0700, Mike Latimer wrote: > > During domain startup, all required memory ballooning must complete > > within a maximum window of 33 seconds (3 retries, 11 seconds of delay). > > If not, domain creation is ab

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3] libxl: Wait for ballooning if free memory is increasing

2015-02-05 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2015-02-02 at 08:17 -0700, Mike Latimer wrote: > On Monday, February 02, 2015 02:35:39 PM Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Fri, 2015-01-30 at 14:01 -0700, Mike Latimer wrote: > > > During domain startup, all required memory ballooning must complete > > > within a maximum window of 33 seconds (3 r

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3] libxl: Wait for ballooning if free memory is increasing

2015-02-10 Thread Mike Latimer
On Thursday, February 05, 2015 12:45:53 PM Ian Campbell wrote: > On Mon, 2015-02-02 at 08:17 -0700, Mike Latimer wrote: > > On Monday, February 02, 2015 02:35:39 PM Ian Campbell wrote: > > > On Fri, 2015-01-30 at 14:01 -0700, Mike Latimer wrote: > > > > During domain startup, all required memory ba

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3] libxl: Wait for ballooning if free memory is increasing

2015-02-13 Thread Wei Liu
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 09:17:23PM -0700, Mike Latimer wrote: > On Thursday, February 05, 2015 12:45:53 PM Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Mon, 2015-02-02 at 08:17 -0700, Mike Latimer wrote: > > > On Monday, February 02, 2015 02:35:39 PM Ian Campbell wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2015-01-30 at 14:01 -0700, Mik

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3] libxl: Wait for ballooning if free memory is increasing

2015-02-13 Thread Mike Latimer
Hi Wei, On Friday, February 13, 2015 11:01:41 AM Wei Liu wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 09:17:23PM -0700, Mike Latimer wrote: > > Prior to my changes, this issue would only be noticed when starting very > > large domains - due to the loop being limited to 3 iterations. (For > > example, when bal