RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Fix auto-ballooning of dom0 for HVM domains

["Jiang, Yunhong" <yunhong.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ewan
        Thanks for your explaination very much !

Thanks
Yunhong Jiang 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ewan Mellor [mailto:ewan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
>Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 11:15 PM
>To: Jiang, Yunhong
>Cc: Charles Coffing; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Fix auto-ballooning of dom0 
>for HVM domains
>
>On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 12:23:59PM +0800, Jiang, Yunhong wrote:
>
>> Hi, Charles
>>      Just one suggestion, for  xen-hvm-auto-balloon.diff, how about
>> change 
>>              xc.domain_setmaxmem(self.domid, m)
>>  
>> to 
>>              xc.domain_setmaxmem(self.domid, 
>self.info['memory'] * 1024)
>> 
>> The maxmem would be used to check when guest try to increase memory.
>> 
>> Also, does anyone know the what the BALLOON_OUT_SLACK on
>> tools/python/xen/xend/balloon.py stands for? The comments said it is
>> "physinfo details are rounded".
>
>When you get the free memory from xc.physinfo(), it may report 
>(for example)
>100MB free when actually there are 99.9MB free.  It rounds up 
>because you
>are often just a few pages short of the value you expect, 
>because there are
>pages being used for the I/O shared rings, for example.  This 
>means that when
>deciding how much memory to balloon, we need to subtract 1MB.
>
>Ewan.
>

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