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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen/balloon: Set balloon's initial state to number of existing RAM pages



On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 03:37:40PM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> Currently balloon's initial value is set to max_pfn which includes
> non-RAM ranges such as MMIO hole. As result, initial memory target
> (specified by guest's configuration file) will appear smaller than
> what balloon driver perceives to be the current number of available
> pages. Thus it will balloon down "extra" pages, decreasing amount of
> available memory for no good reason.

Duh!

Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>

> 
> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/xen/balloon.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/xen/balloon.c b/drivers/xen/balloon.c
> index b232908..1b62304 100644
> --- a/drivers/xen/balloon.c
> +++ b/drivers/xen/balloon.c
> @@ -641,7 +641,7 @@ static int __init balloon_init(void)
>  
>       balloon_stats.current_pages = xen_pv_domain()
>               ? min(xen_start_info->nr_pages - xen_released_pages, max_pfn)
> -             : max_pfn;
> +             : get_num_physpages();
>       balloon_stats.target_pages  = balloon_stats.current_pages;
>       balloon_stats.balloon_low   = 0;
>       balloon_stats.balloon_high  = 0;
> -- 
> 1.8.1.4
> 

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