Re: [PATCH] kvm: add oom notifier for virtio balloon

[Dave Young]

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 11:15:21 pm Dave Young wrote:
>> Balloon could cause guest memory oom killing and panic.
>>
>> Add oom notify to leak some memory and retry fill balloon after 5 minutes.
>
> Have you tried registering a shrinker? ÂSee mm.h.

Hi, thanks. I didn't know shrinker can shrink mem beyond slab. Will try

>
> Thanks,
> Rusty.
>



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Regards
dave
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