Re: Enabling balloon(4) in Xen dom0/domU kernels?

[Jean-Yves Migeon <jeanyves.migeon%free.fr@localhost>]

On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 13:36:43 +0200, Manuel Bouyer 
<bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 10:31:23PM +0200, Jean-Yves Migeon wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I would like to know if it's acceptable to enable the balloon(4) 
> > driver
> > by default for all NetBSD Xen kernels.
> >
> > I believe that it needs more coverage than the tests I ran. IMHO the
> > easiest way to achieve that would to turn it on by default.
> >
> > FWIW, I tested the driver under "heavy" loads (mainly build.sh runs 
> > in
> > domU), and it never appeared to cause issues, except the occasional
> > swapping and delays due to balloon operations.
> >
> > Opinions?
>
> I think it can be turned on, yes.

Thanks Manuel, I will do it in a few days.

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