Re: [Xen-users] self-balloon driver AWOL

[Jürgen Groß <jgross@xxxxxxxx>]

On 21.01.20 15:06, James Dingwall wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been successfully using the self-balloon driver on my Ubuntu
> bionic systems in order to over-provision memory for lots of PV linux
> guests.  The workload works well for this strategy as typically a small
> number of guests require more memory for a short period and then they
> yield it again once they've done their work.  After upgrading to the
> latest HWE kernel based on Linux 5.3 this driver has been removed so the
> guests only start with the 'memory' value and do not increase to
> 'maxmem' when required.  Is there a replacement driver which does this
> work?
The problem with the self-balloon driver was that it depended on tmem,
which has been removed from Xen due to major security flaws.

In case you have been able to use the self-balloon driver without tmem
by configuring it in a special way (how?), I'd be happy to re-add it
without the tmem parts.


Juergen

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