Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]


Groups > linux.kernel > #1211192 > unrolled thread

Re: [PATCH v5 5/7] VMware balloon: Support 2m page ballooning.

Started byKamalneet Singh <kamalneet@gmail.com>
First post2015-08-21 16:10 +0200
Last post2015-08-21 16:10 +0200
Articles 1 — 1 participant

Back to article view | Back to linux.kernel

This discussion starts older than the indexed window; earlier articles aren't shown. The article labeled Started by below is the oldest one visible, not the original post.


Contents

  Re: [PATCH v5 5/7] VMware balloon: Support 2m page ballooning. Kamalneet Singh <kamalneet@gmail.com> - 2015-08-21 16:10 +0200

#1211192 — Re: [PATCH v5 5/7] VMware balloon: Support 2m page ballooning.

FromKamalneet Singh <kamalneet@gmail.com>
Date2015-08-21 16:10 +0200
SubjectRe: [PATCH v5 5/7] VMware balloon: Support 2m page ballooning.
Message-ID<pZVb5-5RQ-59@gated-at.bofh.it>
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/

[toc] | [standalone]


Back to top | Article view | linux.kernel


csiph-web