Re: [PATCH]: Support dynamic resizing of vbds

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>]

On 07/20/2010 11:29 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:37:51AM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
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>> On 07/20/2010 10:28 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
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>>> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 02:01:20PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
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>>>> On 03/18/2010 01:28 PM, Ky Srinivasan wrote:
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>>>>> The attached patch supports dynamic resizing of vbds. This patch fixes a bug in the previous version of this patch that was sent out. With this patch you can perform "online" resizing of  file systems that support online resizing.
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>>>> Please send a delta against the previous patch, since it has already  
>>>> been applied.
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>>> Btw dynamic vbd resize is something we should get into mainline Linux..
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>> Good point.  I created a branch called "upstream/blkfront" with a
>> candidate set of blkfront changes to send.  Could you test it out?
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> Sure. I can test it tomorrow.
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Thanks.

> it seems xen/stable-2.6.32.x branch already has these patches 
> so dom0 side is easy for the test..
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> should I try the blkfront patches against the latest Linus git tree, or 2.6.34, or ?
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That branch, upstream/blkfront, is rebased onto v2.6.34, so you can test
it as-is, or merge it into the current linux-2.6 branch (which is a
clean merge).

    J