Re: [PATCH] VMware balloon: stop locking pages when hypervisortells us enough

[Andrew Morton]

On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 08:52:26 -0800
Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> When hypervisor decides to decrease target balloon size while the
> balloon driver tries to lock pages hypervisor may respond with
> VMW_BALLOON_PPN_NOTNEEDED. Use this data and immediately stop reserving
> pages and wait for the next update cycle to fetch new target instead
> of continuing trying to lock pages until size of refused list grows
> above VMW_BALLOON_MAX_REFUSED (16) pages.

OK, but ... why?  What is the externally visible effect of this change?
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