Re: [PATCH V3] xen/balloon: Memory hotplug support for Xen balloon driver

From: Daniel Kiper
Date: Wed May 18 2011 - 06:36:47 EST


On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 11:24:54AM +0400, Vasiliy G Tolstov wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 08:21 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 07:57 +0100, Vasiliy G Tolstov wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 23:44 +0200, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> > > > + Memory could be hotplugged in following steps:
> > > > +
> > > > + 1) dom0: xl mem-max <domU> <maxmem>
> > > > + where <maxmem> is >= requested memory size,
> > > > +
> > > > + 2) dom0: xl mem-set <domU> <memory>
> > > > + where <memory> is requested memory size; alternatively memory
> > > > + could be added by writing proper value to
> > > > + /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/target or
> > > > + /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/target_kb on dumU,
> > > > +
> > > > + 3) domU: for i in /sys/devices/system/memory/memory*/state; do \
> > > > + [ "`cat "$i"`" = offline ] && echo online > "$i"; done
> >
> > > Very good. Is that possible to eliminate step 3 ? And do it automatic if
> > > domU runs with specific xen balloon param?
> >
> > When we faced the same question WRT VCPU hotplug we ended up using a
> > udev rule. Presumably the same could be done here. In the VCPU case the
> > rule is:
> >
> > ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="cpu", RUN+="/bin/sh -c '[ ! -e /sys$devpath/online ] || echo 1 > /sys$devpath/online'"
> >
> > Presumably the memory one will be broadly similar.

Here is proper udev rule:

SUBSYSTEM=="memory", ACTION=="add", RUN+="/bin/sh -c '[ -f /sys$devpath/state ] && echo online > /sys$devpath/state'"

Konrad, could you add it to git comment and Kconfig help ???

Daniel
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