Re: [PATCH] xen/balloon: Set balloon's initial state to number ofexisting RAM pages

From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Date: Wed Nov 06 2013 - 16:29:30 EST


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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