Re: [PATCH RFC] virtio_balloon: conservative balloon page shrinking

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Thu Feb 06 2020 - 06:26:47 EST


On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 09:43:10AM +0000, Wang, Wei W wrote:
> On Thursday, February 6, 2020 5:31 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >
> > How about just making this a last resort thing to be compatible with existing
> > hypervisors? if someone wants to change behaviour that really should use a
> > feature bit ...
>
> Yeah, sounds good to me to control via feature bits.
>
> Best,
> Wei

To clarify, shrinker use could be a feature bit. OOM behaviour was
there for years and has been used to dynamically size guests.

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