Re: [Xen-devel] RE: Ballooning up

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>]

 >>> On 14.09.10 at 00:51, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I guess there are three options:
> 
>    1. add a "xen_maxmem" (or something) kernel parameter to override
>       space specified in the E820 table

Isn't that what the (native) "mem=" option is intended for?

>    2. ignore E820 if its a privileged domain

I think this upper limit specified by the machine E820 should be
ignored here, and an option (as per 1.) should be available.

>    3. only allow extra memory up to a certain ratio of the base memory
>       (8x? 16x? 32x?)

Enforcing a sane upper limit of the ratio (we use 32x currently)
seems like a reasonable thing to do in any case.

Jan


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