Subject: Re: maybe revert commit c275a57f5ec3 "xen/balloon: Set balloon's
 initial state to number of existing RAM pages"
To: Dan Streetman <dan.streetman@canonical.com>,
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From: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
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> I think we can all agree that the *ideal* situation would be, for the
> balloon driver to not immediately hotplug memory so it can add 11 more
> pages, so maybe I just need to figure out why the balloon driver
> thinks it needs 11 more pages, and fix that.


How does the new memory appear in the guest? Via online_pages()?

Or is ballooning triggered from watch_target()?

-boris