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* [PATCH] xl.cfg: document the maxmem= option
@ 2012-05-04 19:31 Olaf Hering
  2012-05-04 19:42 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 13+ messages in thread
From: Olaf Hering @ 2012-05-04 19:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: xen-devel

# HG changeset patch
# User Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
# Date 1336159720 -7200
# Node ID c414728d0d12f1c3e416e40cceefca2f0b00578e
# Parent  8f556a70ae0bef47e242f9e7be0a054769fc8277
xl.cfg: document the maxmem= option

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>

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<maxmem=MBYTES>
+
+Specifies the maximum amount of memory the HVM guest can ever see.
+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<maxmem=NUMBER>
-
-XXX
-
 =item B<nodes=XXX>
 
 XXX

^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 13+ messages in thread
* [PATCH] xl.cfg: document the maxmem= option
@ 2012-05-31 15:04 Olaf Hering
  2012-06-01 11:05 ` Ian Campbell
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 13+ messages in thread
From: Olaf Hering @ 2012-05-31 15:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: xen-devel

# HG changeset patch
# User Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
# Date 1338476618 -7200
# Node ID 4dad9647a0963a2665ccf055492e740c2b399517
# Parent  d7318231cfe3498947bf75f09d6675407d7b4e76
xl.cfg: document the maxmem= option

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>

diff -r d7318231cfe3 -r 4dad9647a096 docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5
--- a/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5
+++ b/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5
@@ -174,6 +174,14 @@ Honoured by the sedf scheduler.
 
 Start the guest with MBYTES megabytes of RAM.
 
+=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.
+
 =item B<on_poweroff="ACTION">
 
 Specifies what should be done with the domain if it shuts itself down.
@@ -971,10 +979,6 @@ XXX
 
 XXX
 
-=item B<maxmem=NUMBER>
-
-XXX
-
 =item B<nodes=XXX>
 
 XXX

^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 13+ messages in thread
* [PATCH] xl.cfg: document the maxmem= option
@ 2012-06-01 14:55 Olaf Hering
  2012-06-06 12:54 ` Ian Campbell
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 13+ messages in thread
From: Olaf Hering @ 2012-06-01 14:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: xen-devel

# HG changeset patch
# User Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
# Date 1338562334 -7200
# Node ID fde8ad0252ee6ddb8d71dda869db3b20b3d9ca62
# Parent  3b4346d6002e9ffcd4a9f50b031bd2a77b16b1dd
xl.cfg: document the maxmem= option

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>

diff -r 3b4346d6002e -r fde8ad0252ee docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5
--- a/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5
+++ b/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5
@@ -174,6 +174,16 @@ Honoured by the sedf scheduler.
 
 Start the guest with MBYTES megabytes of RAM.
 
+=item B<maxmem=MBYTES>
+
+Specifies the maximum amount of memory a guest can ever see.
+The value of B<maxmem=> must be equal or greater than B<memory=>.
+
+In combination with B<memory=> it will start the guest "pre-ballooned",
+if the values of B<memory=> and B<maxmem=> differ.
+A "pre-ballooned" HVM guest needs a balloon driver, without a balloon driver
+it will crash.
+
 =item B<on_poweroff="ACTION">
 
 Specifies what should be done with the domain if it shuts itself down.
@@ -971,10 +981,6 @@ XXX
 
 XXX
 
-=item B<maxmem=NUMBER>
-
-XXX
-
 =item B<nodes=XXX>
 
 XXX

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