Messages in this thread | | | From | Kamalneet Singh <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 5/7] VMware balloon: Support 2m page ballooning. | Date | Fri, 21 Aug 2015 14:01:54 +0000 (UTC) |
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Philip P. Moltmann <moltmann <at> vmware.com> writes:
... > Use 2 MB pages as the hypervisor is alwys 64bit and 2 MB is the smallest > supported super-page size. > > The code has to run on older versions of ESX and old balloon drivers run on > newer version of ESX. Hence match the capabilities with the host before 2m > page ballooning could be enabled.
I applied your patchset. Is there any hardware requirement for 2M ballooning? Or any ESXi host config? My ESXi 6 installation reports the following capabilities, which doesn't include 2M balloon size.
balloon capabilities: 0x1e used capabilities: 0x6
Thanks Kamal
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