Re: [PATCH V3] xen/balloon: Memory hotplug support for Xen balloondriver

From: Vasiliy G Tolstov
Date: Wed May 18 2011 - 03:10:52 EST


On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 23:44 +0200, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> This patch applies to Linus' git tree, v2.6.39-rc7 tag with a few
> prerequisite patches available at https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/17/407
> and at https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/3/28/98.
>
> Memory hotplug support for Xen balloon driver. It should be
> mentioned that hotplugged memory is not onlined automatically.
> It should be onlined by user through standard sysfs interface.
>
> Memory could be hotplugged in following steps:
>
> 1) dom0: xl mem-max <domU> <maxmem>
> where <maxmem> is >= requested memory size,
>
> 2) dom0: xl mem-set <domU> <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,
>
> 3) domU: for i in /sys/devices/system/memory/memory*/state; do \
> [ "`cat "$i"`" = offline ] && echo online > "$i"; done
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <dkiper@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/xen/Kconfig | 24 +++++++++
> drivers/xen/balloon.c | 139 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> include/xen/balloon.h | 4 ++
> 3 files changed, 165 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/xen/Kconfig b/drivers/xen/Kconfig
> index a59638b..b74501e 100644
> --- a/drivers/xen/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/xen/Kconfig
> @@ -9,6 +9,30 @@ config XEN_BALLOON
> the system to expand the domain's memory allocation, or alternatively
> return unneeded memory to the system.
>
> +config XEN_BALLOON_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
> + bool "Memory hotplug support for Xen balloon driver"
> + default n
> + depends on XEN_BALLOON && MEMORY_HOTPLUG
> + help
> + Memory hotplug support for Xen balloon driver allows expanding memory
> + available for the system above limit declared at system startup.
> + It is very useful on critical systems which require long
> + run without rebooting.
> +
> + Memory could be hotplugged in following steps:
> +
> + 1) dom0: xl mem-max <domU> <maxmem>
> + where <maxmem> is >= requested memory size,
> +
> + 2) dom0: xl mem-set <domU> <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,
> +
> + 3) domU: for i in /sys/devices/system/memory/memory*/state; do \
> + [ "`cat "$i"`" = offline ] && echo online > "$i"; done
> +
Very good. Is that possible to eliminate step 3 ? And do it automatic if
domU runs with specific xen balloon param?

--
>
> Vasiliy G Tolstov <v.tolstov@xxxxxxxxx>
> Selfip.Ru

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