Re: [Xen-devel] balloon.py unaware of pages on page_scrub_list

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 19 Jun 2006, at 23:15, Charles Coffing wrote:

> Would it make sense to give this information to balloon.py, and apply 
> some heuristics?  Perhaps xend should wait for the scrub list to go to 
> zero before trying to balloon.  Or maybe it should consider that 
> memory as free, and only try to balloon (needed - to_scrub).
> The most obvious way (to me) to get that information to xend is via 
> DOM0_PHYSINFO.  That way, the number of free pages and the number of 
> pages to scrub can be gotten atomically.
> Thoughts?
>
> I volunteer to code and test this if there's some agreement on how it 
> should be done.
Your approach sounds fine to me.

 -- Keir


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