[Bug 982238] New: "Hide" ballooned memory
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=982238
Bug ID: 982238
Summary: "Hide" ballooned memory
Classification: openSUSE
Product: openSUSE 13.1
Version: Final
Hardware: Other
OS: Other
Status: NEW
Severity: Normal
Priority: P5 - None
Component: Kernel
Assignee: kernel-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com
Reporter: ann.melekhova@gmail.com
QA Contact: qa-bugs@suse.de
Found By: ---
Blocker: ---
There is QEMU/KVM and a Linux guest running inside the guest. The amount
of memory available for guest could be adjusted by balloon for better
host scalability. The problem that this change is visible for end-user
actually using the guest. This could (potentially) result in lawsuite
from the end-user to hosting provides.
The problem is addressed in mainstream Linux with the following patchset:
commit 997e120843e82609c8d99a9d5714e6cf91e14cbe
Author: Denis V. Lunev
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=982238
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=982238#c1
Takashi Iwai
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=982238
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=982238#c2
Anna Melekhova
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=982238
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=982238#c3
--- Comment #3 from Takashi Iwai
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=982238
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=982238#c4
Takashi Iwai
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