Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: fix dom0 balloon logic

2015-03-24 Thread Jim Fehlig
Stefano Stabellini wrote: > On Mon, 23 Mar 2015, Ian Campbell wrote: > >> (just ccing the other tools maintainers, in particular Stefano who knows >> what this stuff is supposed to do...) >> >> On Fri, 2015-03-20 at 17:10 -0600, Jim Fehlig wrote: >> >>> Recent testing on large memory system

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: fix dom0 balloon logic

2015-03-24 Thread Stefano Stabellini
On Mon, 23 Mar 2015, Ian Campbell wrote: > (just ccing the other tools maintainers, in particular Stefano who knows > what this stuff is supposed to do...) > > On Fri, 2015-03-20 at 17:10 -0600, Jim Fehlig wrote: > > Recent testing on large memory systems revealed a bug in the Xen xl > > tool's fr

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: fix dom0 balloon logic

2015-03-23 Thread Ian Campbell
(just ccing the other tools maintainers, in particular Stefano who knows what this stuff is supposed to do...) On Fri, 2015-03-20 at 17:10 -0600, Jim Fehlig wrote: > Recent testing on large memory systems revealed a bug in the Xen xl > tool's freemem() function. When autoballooning is enabled, fr

[Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: fix dom0 balloon logic

2015-03-20 Thread Jim Fehlig
Recent testing on large memory systems revealed a bug in the Xen xl tool's freemem() function. When autoballooning is enabled, freemem() is used to ensure enough memory is available to start a domain, ballooning dom0 if necessary. When ballooning large amounts of memory from dom0, freemem() would