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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] make balloon driver not return pages which are i

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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] make balloon driver not return pages which are in [xen_start_info->nr_pages,
From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 10:03:59 +0000
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>>> Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 04.01.07 10:06 >>>
>make balloon driver not return pages which are in
>[xen_start_info->nr_pages, max_pfn] on ia64.
>On ia64 memory might be assigned sparsely. In that case
>xen_start_info->nr_pages and max_pfn doesn't match while pages which are in
>[xen_start_info->nr_pages, max_pfn] are used.

But where do you fill the balloon initially then instead, to support the case 
where
one wants the domain to be able to grow its memory consumption?

Jan

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