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| author | Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> | 2013-05-14 13:56:42 -0400 |
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| committer | Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> | 2013-05-15 10:27:50 -0400 |
| commit | 37d46e152e4c71cd772085912f1c7bf06839f739 (patch) | |
| tree | ee31e42aca07640b538385c9b6b2acce315c5716 /Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | |
| parent | ed4f346a008edda8ee08ffcdc642691847636954 (diff) | |
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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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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 3de01edca3ea..6e3b18a8afc6 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -3014,7 +3014,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. 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 |