Re: pvops dom0 work roadmap

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>]

On 08/19/09 17:25, Daniel Schroeder wrote:
> Hi Jeremy,
>
> thx for your work! I have tested current rebase/master on 64bit (Dell
> PE2900, dual quad Xeon) with xen 3.4.2-rc1 and i have two issues:
>   
>>     * better acpi power management (ported from 2.6.18)
>>     
> how do i use the pm feature of pvops?
> [1][2]
>   

Um, not sure.  I applied the patches, but I haven't tested them ;) 
Perhaps Yu Ke can add some light here.

> the other issue is dom0 memory...this is a bit odd...
> system booted with dom0_mem=4096m but top displays only Mem:   2088992k
> total.
> xm top is correct and displays 4GB for Domain-0.
>   

Hm, yes that's expected.  Currently some of dom0's memory is hidden
behind the PCI aperature and is wasted.  The quick fix is to simply
return the memory to Xen so that it can at least be properly used; the
complex fix is to move that memory higher up the address space so that
it's immediately available to dom0.  I tried the latter but it turned
out pretty complex.  The former is relatively simple, and I'll probably
apply a patch to do it soonish.  Once boot-time ballooning works (ie,
starting a domain so that it can be expanded), the memory can be
re-added via the balloon driver.

    J