Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 May 2013 14:25:11 -0400 | From | Luiz Capitulino <> | Subject | Re: [RFC 2/2] virtio_balloon: auto-ballooning support |
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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.
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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