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From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com>
Subject: Re: freemem-slack and large memory environments
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 08:24:55 +0000
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>>> On 26.02.15 at 18:53, <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
> Or maybe we just need to change the libxl_set_memory_target call to use
> an absolute memory target to avoid restricting dom0 memory more than
> necessary at each iteration. Also increasing the timeout argument passed
> to the libxl_wait_for_free_memory call could help.

Wouldn't that lead to problems with multiple racing invocations of
that function (perhaps from different processes)? (Note that I ask
this without knowledge on whether libxl already suitably serializes
things.)

Jan