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On 05.02.20 17:34, David Hildenbrand wrote: > Commit 71994620bb25 ("virtio_balloon: replace oom notifier with shrinker") > changed the behavior when deflation happens automatically. Instead of > deflating when called by the OOM handler, the shrinker is used. > > However, the balloon is not simply some slab cache that should be > shrunk when under memory pressure. The

On 05.02.20 17:34, David Hildenbrand wrote: > Commit 71994620bb25 ("virtio_balloon: replace oom notifier with shrinker") > changed the behavior when deflation happens automatically. Instead of > deflating when called by the OOM handler, the shrinker is used. > > However, the balloon is not simply some slab cache that should be > shrunk when under memory pressure. The