Re: Re: [Xen-devel] Balloon driver for Linux/HVM

[Chu Rui <ruichu@xxxxxxxxx>]

Nice to hear that!

In my image, the memory hotplug only works in the PV guest. Did you figured out an HVM version? If so, could you tell me the method you are using? Maybe binary patching with an HVM driver?

2010/11/17 Daniel Kiper <dkiper@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hello,

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 07:50:18PM +0800, Chu Rui wrote:
> You are right, so balloon is an important tool to adjust the capacity of the
> buffer caches among the guests. But balloon is usually criticized for its
> long reactive time. Would you please tell me how slow it is? Can we
> temporarily suspend the guest when the balloon deflating speed is not as far
> as required?
> Furthermore, with HVM, the balloon does not work when the guest is short of
> memory and swapping, even the host has a lot of surplus at that time.
> Besides promise a large size to the booting guest, it there any better way?

Yes, it is - memory hotplug. Now it is under development. Currently,
I am waiting for some comments for new version of patch. I will make
it public when I receive those reviews.

Daniel

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