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From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: [PATCH] xl.cfg: document the maxmem= option
Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 21:31:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c414728d0d12f1c3e416.1336159902@probook.site> (raw)

# 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

             reply	other threads:[~2012-05-04 19:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-04 19:31 Olaf Hering [this message]
2012-05-04 19:42 ` [PATCH] xl.cfg: document the maxmem= option 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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-05-31 15:04 Olaf Hering
2012-06-01 11:05 ` Ian Campbell
2012-06-01 14:59   ` Olaf Hering
2012-06-01 14:55 Olaf Hering
2012-06-06 12:54 ` Ian Campbell

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