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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c | 22 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c b/drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c index 21e18c18c7a1..745ad79c1d8e 100644 --- a/drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c +++ b/drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c @@ -175,6 +175,7 @@ static void frontswap_selfshrink(void) #endif /* CONFIG_FRONTSWAP */ #define MB2PAGES(mb) ((mb) << (20 - PAGE_SHIFT)) +#define PAGES2MB(pages) ((pages) >> (20 - PAGE_SHIFT)) /* * Use current balloon size, the goal (vm_committed_as), and hysteresis @@ -525,6 +526,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_xen_selfballooning); int xen_selfballoon_init(bool use_selfballooning, bool use_frontswap_selfshrink) { bool enable = false; + unsigned long reserve_pages; if (!xen_domain()) return -ENODEV; @@ -549,6 +551,26 @@ int xen_selfballoon_init(bool use_selfballooning, bool use_frontswap_selfshrink) if (!enable) return -ENODEV; + /* + * Give selfballoon_reserved_mb a default value(10% of total ram pages) + * to make selfballoon not so aggressive. + * + * There are mainly two reasons: + * 1) The original goal_page didn't consider some pages used by kernel + * space, like slab pages and memory used by device drivers. + * + * 2) The balloon driver may not give back memory to guest OS fast + * enough when the workload suddenly aquries a lot of physical memory. + * + * In both cases, the guest OS will suffer from memory pressure and + * OOM killer may be triggered. + * By reserving extra 10% of total ram pages, we can keep the system + * much more reliably and response faster in some cases. + */ + if (!selfballoon_reserved_mb) { + reserve_pages = totalram_pages / 10; + selfballoon_reserved_mb = PAGES2MB(reserve_pages); + } schedule_delayed_work(&selfballoon_worker, selfballoon_interval * HZ); return 0; |