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Re: [Xen-devel] testing the balloon driver

To: "Mark A. Williamson" <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] testing the balloon driver
From: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:03:53 -0400 (EDT)
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On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Mark A. Williamson wrote:

> > I'm off to investigate whether it's a VM bug, or whether I should
> > make the balloon driver a little friendlier on the VM.  Chances
> > are I'll end up sending out a patch later, either here or to the
> > linux-kernel mailing list ;)
> 
> Probably the balloon driver being unfriendly.  Rate limiting was on the list 
> after getting the 2.6 port, ctrlif, etc working.  We also need to fix the way 
> ballooned pages are recorded, since the current scheme breaks under 
> migration.

I was able to reproduce the problem without resizing
the VM, too.  It could just be a 2.6.8.1 thing...

-- 
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan



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