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| From | Kamalneet Singh <kamalneet@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 5/7] VMware balloon: Support 2m page ballooning. |
| Date | 2015-08-21 16:10 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <pZVb5-5RQ-59@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <pUBG2-5pj-31@gated-at.bofh.it> <pUBPH-5As-19@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
Philip P. Moltmann <moltmann <at> vmware.com> writes: ... > Use 2 MB pages as the hypervisor is alwys 64bit and 2 MB is the smallest > supported super-page size. > > The code has to run on older versions of ESX and old balloon drivers run on > newer version of ESX. Hence match the capabilities with the host before 2m > page ballooning could be enabled. I applied your patchset. Is there any hardware requirement for 2M ballooning? Or any ESXi host config? My ESXi 6 installation reports the following capabilities, which doesn't include 2M balloon size. balloon capabilities: 0x1e used capabilities: 0x6 Thanks Kamal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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Re: [PATCH v5 5/7] VMware balloon: Support 2m page ballooning. Kamalneet Singh <kamalneet@gmail.com> - 2015-08-21 16:10 +0200
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