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[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] Disable auto-balloon on ia64

To: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] Disable auto-balloon on ia64
From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 10:37:27 +0100
Cc: Charles Coffing <ccoffing@xxxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>, xen-ia64-devel <xen-ia64-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On 22 May 2006, at 10:06, Tian, Kevin wrote:

We just need to reverse the whole change for ia64, since both domU and domVTI are insert a hole by this auto-balloon patch. Due to missing balloon support on xen/ia64 as you said, both domU and domVTI failed due to this change.

The first patch that you work around seems okay to me. That is, it seems correct that we make initial reservation exclude 'getDomainMemory headroom'. Shouldn't ia64 reserve extra memory as it needs it, as x86 does, rather than up front?

The second bit of your workaround, which applies to getDomainMemory: I'll wait and see if Charles has anything to say, but otherwise I'll remove the code that adds the extra slack entirely.

 -- Keir


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