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authorKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>2013-05-14 13:56:42 -0400
committerKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>2013-05-15 10:27:50 -0400
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xen/tmem: Don't use self[ballooning|shrinking] if frontswap is off.
There is no point. We would just squeeze the guest to put more and more pages in the swap disk without any purpose. The only time it makes sense to use the selfballooning and shrinking is when frontswap is being utilized. Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
- API to send swap pages to the hypervisor.
+ API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
+ the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages