On Mon, 2 Mar 2015 11:52:34 +0530 Amit Shah <amit.shah@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >Another important detail is that, I *suspect* that a very similar > > >bug already exists with 32-bit guests even without memory > > >hotplug: what happens if you assign 6GB to a 32-bit without PAE > > >support? I think the same problem we're seeing with memory > > >hotplug will happen and solution 1 won't fix this, although > > >no one seems to care about 32-bit guests... > > Not just 32-bit guests; even 64-bit guests restricted with mem= on the > cmdline. You're right. So, it's an already existing issue that becomes very apparent with memory hotplug. > I know we've discussed this in the past, and I recall > virtio-balloon v2 was going to address this all; sadly I've not kept > uptodate with it. Me neither :( -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html