On Saturday 28 March 2009 01:39:05 Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > Greetings, > the circus is back in town -- another version of the guest page hinting > patches. The patches differ from version 6 only in the kernel version, > they apply against 2.6.29. My short sniff test showed that the code > is still working as expected. > > To recap (you can skip this if you read the boiler plate of the last > version of the patches): > The main benefit for guest page hinting vs. the ballooner is that there > is no need for a monitor that keeps track of the memory usage of all the > guests, a complex algorithm that calculates the working set sizes and for > the calls into the guest kernel to control the size of the balloons. I thought you weren't convinced of the concrete benefits over ballooning, or am I misremembering? Thanks, Rusty. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
