Re: [RFC][PATCH] Memory Hotplug

Rik van Riel
2005-02-18T21:52:25Z

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Dave Hansen wrote:

> The attached patch is a prototype implementation of memory hot-add. It
> allows you to boot your system, and add memory to it later. Why would
> you want to do this?

I want it so I can grow Xen guests after they have been booted
up. Being able to hot-add memory is essential for dynamically
resizing the memory of various guest OSes, to readjust them for
the workload.

Memory hot-remove isn't really needed with Xen, the balloon
driver takes care of that.

> I can post individual patches if anyone would like to comment on them.

I'm interested. I want to get this stuff working with Xen ;)

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