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Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] xen_balloon: support memory auto onlining policy

From Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] xen_balloon: support memory auto onlining policy
Date 2016-01-13 21:50 +0100
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On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 06:32:30PM +0100, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
> Add support for the newly added kernel memory auto onlining policy to Xen
> ballon driver.
>
> Suggested-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>

In general Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
but one nitpick below...

Thank you for doing this work.

> ---
> Changes since v4:
> - 'dom0' -> 'control domain', 'domU' -> 'target domain' in Kconfig
>   [David Vrabel]
> - always call add_memory_resource() with memhp_auto_online [David Vrabel]
> ---
>  drivers/xen/Kconfig   | 20 +++++++++++++-------
>  drivers/xen/balloon.c | 11 ++++++++++-
>  2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/xen/Kconfig b/drivers/xen/Kconfig
> index 73708ac..addcb7f 100644
> --- a/drivers/xen/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/xen/Kconfig
> @@ -37,23 +37,29 @@ config XEN_BALLOON_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
>
>  	  Memory could be hotplugged in following steps:
>
> -	    1) dom0: xl mem-max <domU> <maxmem>
> +	    1) target domain: ensure that memory auto online policy is in
> +	       effect by checking /sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks
> +	       file (should be 'online').
> +
> +	    2) control domain: xl mem-max <target-domain> <maxmem>
>  	       where <maxmem> is >= requested memory size,
>
> -	    2) dom0: xl mem-set <domU> <memory>
> +	    3) control domain: xl mem-set <target-domain> <memory>
>  	       where <memory> is requested memory size; alternatively memory
>  	       could be added by writing proper value to
>  	       /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/target or
>  	       /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/target_kb on dumU,

Please change "dumU" to "target domain".

Daniel

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[PATCH v5 2/2] xen_balloon: support memory auto onlining policy Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> - 2016-01-13 18:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] xen_balloon: support memory auto onlining policy Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com> - 2016-01-13 21:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] xen_balloon: support memory auto onlining policy David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> - 2016-01-14 11:30 +0100

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