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On 12/22/2015 10:44 AM, David Gibson wrote:
> I've discussed with Paul and Ben previously the possibility of
> extending PAPR to allow changing the size of a running guest's hash
> page table (HPT).  This would allow for much more flexible memory
> hotplug, since the HPT wouldn't have to be sized in advance for the
> maximum possible memory size of the guest.

Does it include reducing the size of HPT as well ?