Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 6/7] xen/setup: Make dom0_mem=XGBbehavior be similar to classic Xen kernels.

[Jan Beulich]

>>> Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> 04/06/12 11:04 PM >>>
>> With your new behaviour it will no longer possible to specify an
>> unlimited balloon but a limited number of initial pages.  This is
>> behaviour that Jan said he used.
>
>I am not sure I see the problem - I mean if one uses:
>
>dom0_mem=min:8G,max:16G
>
>I understand that we want to start at 8GB and if the user
>choose to - balloon up to 16GB.
>
>But doing this:
>
>dom0_mem=8G
>
>and allocating pagetables up to .. say 32GB, seems counter-intuive
>as the effect is similar to having no 'dom0_mem' except that the initial
>size is smaller.

What's counter intuitive here? There may not be a need - from the perspective
of the kernel - for a hard upper limit enforced by Xen (i.e. the pseudo infinity
we have right now may be quite fine).

Anyway, as said in the other reply already - unless this is to address a bug, I
don't see the point in changing behavior that has been that way for a pretty
long time.

Jan

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