Philip P. Moltmann <moltmann <at> vmware.com> writes: ... > Use 2 MB pages as the hypervisor is alwys 64bit and 2 MB is the smallest > supported super-page size. > > The code has to run on older versions of ESX and old balloon drivers run on > newer version of ESX. Hence match the capabilities with the host before 2m > page ballooning could be enabled.
I applied your patchset. Is there any hardware requirement for 2M ballooning? Or any ESXi host config? My ESXi 6 installation reports the following capabilities, which doesn't include 2M balloon size. balloon capabilities: 0x1e used capabilities: 0x6 Thanks Kamal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

