diff --git a/drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c b/drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c
index 21e18c1..8f33254 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c
@@ -175,6 +175,7 @@ static void frontswap_selfshrink(void)
 #endif /* CONFIG_FRONTSWAP */
 
 #define MB2PAGES(mb)	((mb) << (20 - PAGE_SHIFT))
+#define PAGES2MB(pages) ((pages) >> (20 - PAGE_SHIFT))
 
 /*
  * Use current balloon size, the goal (vm_committed_as), and hysteresis
@@ -525,6 +526,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_xen_selfballooning);
 int xen_selfballoon_init(bool use_selfballooning, bool use_frontswap_selfshrink)
 {
 	bool enable = false;
+	unsigned long reserve_pages;
 
 	if (!xen_domain())
 		return -ENODEV;
@@ -549,6 +551,26 @@ int xen_selfballoon_init(bool use_selfballooning, bool use_frontswap_selfshrink)
 	if (!enable)
 		return -ENODEV;
 
+	/*
+	 * Give selfballoon_reserved_mb a default value(10% of total ram pages)
+	 * to make selfballoon not so aggressive.
+	 *
+	 * There are two reasons:
+	 * 1) The goal_page doesn't contain some pages used by kernel space,
+	 *    like slab cache and pages used by device drivers.
+	 *
+	 * 2) The balloon driver may not give back memory to guest OS fast
+	 *    enough when the workload suddenly aquries a lot of memory.
+	 *
+	 * In both cases, the guest OS will suffer from memory pressure and
+	 * OOM killer may be triggered.
+	 * By reserving extra 10% of total ram pages, we can keep the system
+	 * much more reliably and response faster in some cases.
+	 */
+	if (!selfballoon_reserved_mb) {
+		reserve_pages = totalram_pages / 10;
+		selfballoon_reserved_mb = PAGES2MB(reserve_pages);
+	}
 	schedule_delayed_work(&selfballoon_worker, selfballoon_interval * HZ);
 
 	return 0;