Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Apr 2010 16:34:58 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] VMware Balloon driver |
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On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:28:38 -0700 Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:
> And is there some way to get the vm subsystem to provide backpressure: > "I'm getting desperately short of memory!"?
Not really. One could presumably pull dopey tricks by hooking into slab shrinker registration or even ->writepage(). But cooking up something explicit doesn't sound too hard - the trickiest bit would be actually defining what it should do.
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