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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] xl.cfg: document the maxmem= option
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 16:59:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120601145935.GA4464@aepfle.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1338548745.17466.86.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com>

On Fri, Jun 01, Ian Campbell wrote:

> On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 16:04 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > +=item B<maxmem=MBYTES>
> > +
> > +Specifies the maximum amount of memory a guest can ever see.
> > +The value of maxmem= must be equal or greater than memory=.
> > +In combination with the memory= option it will start the guest "pre-ballooned".
> > +In a HVM guest it will enable the PoD (populate on demand) mode, iff the values of memory= and maxmem= differ.
> > +The guest needs a balloon driver in this case, without a balloon driver it will crash.
> 
> "iff" has proven to be confusing in the past (we keep getting "fix typo"
> patches for existing ones) maybe just spell it out? Otherwise Ack on the
> text. Although may add a note that booting a PV guest "pre-ballooned"
> Just Works?

I just send a simplified version of this patch. Mentioning PoD is not
really needed because its an hypervisor internal feature.

> Formatting wise some of these lines are very long. Can you wrap to 80
> columns please.

Done.

> Also why have you wrapped this as one sentence per line rather than
> wrapping it as paragraphs (which should have blank lines between them)?

Just a habit.

> I think maxmem= should be B<maxmem=> and the same for memory=.

Done.

Olaf

  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-01 14:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-31 15:04 [PATCH] xl.cfg: document the maxmem= option Olaf Hering
2012-06-01 11:05 ` Ian Campbell
2012-06-01 14:59   ` Olaf Hering [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-06-01 14:55 Olaf Hering
2012-06-06 12:54 ` Ian Campbell
2012-05-04 19:31 Olaf Hering
2012-05-04 19:42 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-05-04 20:18   ` Olaf Hering
2012-05-06  9:35     ` Ian Campbell
2012-05-07 13:06       ` Olaf Hering
2012-05-07 16:37       ` Dan Magenheimer
2012-05-08 12:41         ` Ian Campbell
2012-05-08 15:40           ` Dan Magenheimer

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