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



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.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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