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    xen: use maximum reservation to limit amount of usable RAM · d312ae87
    David Vrabel authored
    Use the domain's maximum reservation to limit the amount of extra RAM
    for the memory balloon. This reduces the size of the pages tables and
    the amount of reserved low memory (which defaults to about 1/32 of the
    total RAM).
    
    On a system with 8 GiB of RAM with the domain limited to 1 GiB the
    kernel reports:
    
    Before:
    
    Memory: 627792k/4472000k available
    
    After:
    
    Memory: 549740k/11132224k available
    
    A increase of about 76 MiB (~1.5% of the unused 7 GiB).  The reserved
    low memory is also reduced from 253 MiB to 32 MiB.  The total
    additional usable RAM is 329 MiB.
    
    For dom0, this requires at patch to Xen ('x86: use 'dom0_mem' to limit
    the number of pages for dom0') (c/s 23790)
    
    CC: stable@kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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