Re: [PATCH]: Support dynamic resizing of vbds

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>]

On 03/11/2010 12:15 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 01:39:23PM -0700, Ky Srinivasan wrote:
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>>>>> On 3/9/2010 at  3:35 PM, in message<20100309203557.GJ1878@reaktio.net>, Pasi
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>> Kärkkäinen<pasik@iki.fi>  wrote:
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>>> On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 01:31:17PM -0700, Ky Srinivasan wrote:
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>>>>>>> On 3/9/2010 at  3:15 PM, in message<20100309201529.GH1878@reaktio.net>, Pasi
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>>>> Kärkkäinen<pasik@iki.fi>  wrote:
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>>>>> On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 12:56:11PM -0700, Ky Srinivasan wrote:
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>>>>>> The attached patch supports dynamic resizing of vbds.
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>>>>> Nice! Did you also implement the xm/xend side of resizing?
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>>>> My goal was to not have the end-user do anything other than what
>>>> was minimally required to  resizing the device on the host side.
>>>> Once the device is resized on the host side, this capacity change
>>>> is propagated to the guest without having to invoke any xm command.
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>>> Oh, even better!
>>> What version of the kernel did you test with? 2.6.27?
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>> I tested this on 2.6.32. The patches should apply to earlier kernels without too much trouble.
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> Great!
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> Jeremy: Hopefully you can add this patch to your tree.
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It applied fairly cleanly, but I haven't tested it yet.  Ky, by 2.6.32 I 
assume I mean your one, not pvops? (Because your patch is touching 
blkfront in the wrong place.)

     J