Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/2] libxl: xl mem-set should not enforce memory limits

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2013-03-15 at 16:57 +0000, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 04:32:53PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Fri, 2013-03-15 at 16:25 +0000, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> > > xl mem-set should not enforce memory limits. If it does
> > 
> > NB the title says libxl but this is actually an xl change.
> > 
> > > then after decreasing reservation there is no chance to
> > > increase reservation directly from guest domain by
> > > writing to /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/target*
> > 
> > This is a feature not a bug I think. It is intentional that if the host
> > admin sets a memory target the a guest admin cannot exceed that limit.
> 
> Even thought 'xm' did not do it?

Yes. Please check the archives, this was discussed at the time (at
length IIRC)

Ian.



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