Re: [PATCH] VMware Balloon driver

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Thu Apr 08 2010 - 01:30:46 EST


Hi!

>>> 1) is not a huge amount of code, but something consistent would be
>>> nice. 2) is something we've been missing and is a bit of an open
>>> question/research project anyway.
>>
>> 3) Code that attempts to reclaim 2MB pages when possible
>
> Yes. Ballooning in 4k units is a bit silly.

Does it make sense to treat ballooning as a form of memory hotplug?

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