From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RFC: initial libxl support for xenpaging
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:43:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120217154346.GA19731@aepfle.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1329492796.3131.104.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com>
On Fri, Feb 17, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 15:24 +0000, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > Where do you see the complexity?
>
> For users in determining what changing a given value will actually do,
> what values they need to use to get the behaviour which they want, what
> happens if they change first one value and then the other, how do they
> interact with mem-set and memmax, what are the various invalid or
> meaningless combinations etc.
>
> There's also complexity for us in trying to decide what the right answer
> is to each of those questions and trying to implement it in a consistent
> way and explain it all to users.
A figure like the one in tools/libxl/libxl_memory.txt will explain it
very well, if done right.
Perhaps I should write up something based on that figure.
Olaf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-17 15:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-16 7:47 [PATCH] RFC: initial libxl support for xenpaging Olaf Hering
2012-02-17 13:44 ` Ian Campbell
2012-02-17 14:25 ` Olaf Hering
2012-02-17 14:58 ` Ian Campbell
2012-02-17 15:24 ` Olaf Hering
2012-02-17 15:33 ` Ian Campbell
2012-02-17 15:43 ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2012-02-17 15:54 ` Ian Campbell
2012-02-17 16:03 ` Olaf Hering
2012-02-17 16:43 ` Ian Campbell
2012-02-20 10:44 ` George Dunlap
2012-02-20 11:12 ` Olaf Hering
2012-02-20 14:48 ` George Dunlap
2012-02-20 15:19 ` Olaf Hering
2012-02-20 16:06 ` George Dunlap
2012-02-20 15:38 ` Olaf Hering
2012-02-20 16:04 ` George Dunlap
2012-02-21 9:59 ` Ian Campbell
2012-02-21 11:27 ` Olaf Hering
2012-02-21 11:34 ` Ian Campbell
2012-02-21 12:21 ` Olaf Hering
2012-02-21 12:20 ` George Dunlap
2012-02-23 10:42 ` Ian Campbell
2012-02-23 12:18 ` George Dunlap
2012-02-23 16:22 ` Andres Lagar-Cavilla
2012-02-23 17:30 ` George Dunlap
2012-02-24 10:11 ` Ian Campbell
2012-02-24 15:38 ` Olaf Hering
2012-02-24 16:39 ` Ian Campbell
2012-02-24 22:19 ` Olaf Hering
2012-02-24 17:12 ` Andres Lagar-Cavilla
2012-02-27 9:44 ` Ian Campbell
2012-02-27 14:45 ` Andres Lagar-Cavilla
2012-02-28 13:05 ` George Dunlap
2012-02-28 15:25 ` Andres Lagar-Cavilla
[not found] ` <CAFLBxZapKUVaiz4e-VwGTwj0a0FOPij5hXrRkevrTC6brtug4Q@mail.gmail.com>
2012-02-28 17:03 ` Fwd: " George Dunlap
2012-03-06 23:07 ` Andres Lagar-Cavilla
[not found] ` <CAFLBxZavBR0c_p1E9NpfkNzhrN-LCbtV=kPRwFZ3VFFMKPBNKg@mail.gmail.com>
2012-02-28 17:02 ` Fwd: " George Dunlap
2012-02-28 17:12 ` Ian Campbell
2012-02-21 9:05 ` Ian Campbell
[not found] <mailman.3929.1329497068.1471.xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
2012-02-17 16:55 ` Andres Lagar-Cavilla
2012-02-17 17:03 ` Ian Campbell
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