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SubjectRe: [RFC 2/2] virtio_balloon: auto-ballooning support
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 02:25:11PM -0400, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> On Mon, 13 May 2013 11:34:41 -0300
> Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > You're right, and the host's member is used to communicate the configured size
> > to guest's balloon device, however, by not changing it when the shrinker causes
> > the balloon to deflate will make the balloon thread to be woken up again
> > in order to chase the balloon size target again, won't it? Check
>
> I don't see the balloon thread waking up after the shrinker executes in my
> testing. Maybe this is so because it will only wake up when QEMU notifies
> a config change.

Well that's also a problem.
Need some mechanism to re-inflate balloon
when guest memory pressure is down.
virtio fs mechanism worth a look?

> But anyway, I'll think how to improve this as suggested by Michael too, as
> I seem to be changing num_pages' semantics according to the virtio spec.


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