From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Subject: Re: [PATCH] xl.cfg: document the maxmem= option Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 15:42:22 -0400 Message-ID: <20120504194222.GA28634@phenom.dumpdata.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Olaf Hering Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 09:31:42PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: > # HG changeset patch > # User Olaf Hering > # Date 1336159720 -7200 > # Node ID c414728d0d12f1c3e416e40cceefca2f0b00578e > # Parent 8f556a70ae0bef47e242f9e7be0a054769fc8277 > xl.cfg: document the maxmem= option > > Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering > > diff -r 8f556a70ae0b -r c414728d0d12 docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5 > --- a/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5 > +++ b/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5 > @@ -484,6 +484,14 @@ are not using hardware assisted paging ( > mode) and your guest workload consists of a a very large number of > similar processes then increasing this value may improve performance. > > +=item B > + > +Specifies the maximum amount of memory the HVM guest can ever see. Isn't it also for PV guests (though without the PoD functionality)? > +In combination with the memory= option it will enable the PoD (populate > +on demand) mode for the guest iff the values of memory= and maxmem= > +differ. The guest needs a balloon driver in this case. The value of > +maxmem= must be equal or greater than memory=. > + > =back > > =head3 Processor and Platform Features > @@ -955,10 +963,6 @@ XXX > > XXX > > -=item B > - > -XXX > - > =item B > > XXX > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@lists.xen.org > http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel