On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 01:16:56PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 10/31/2012 12:58 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Vasilis Liaskovitis > > <vasilis.liaskovitis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> This is v3 of the ACPI memory hotplug functionality. Only x86_64 target is supported > >> for now. > > > > Hi Vasilis, > > Regarding the hot unplug issue we've been discussing, it's possible to > > progress this patch series without fully solving that problem upfront. > > > > Karen Noel suggested that the series could be rolled without the hot > > unplug command, so that it's not possible to hit the unsafe case. > > This would allow users to hot plug additional memory. They would have > > to use virtio-balloon to reduce the memory footprint again. Later, > > when the memory region referencing issue has been solved the hot > > unplug command can be added. > > > > Just wanted to mention Karen's idea in case you feel stuck right now. > > We could introduce hotunplug as an experimental feature so people can > test and play with it, and later graduate it to a fully supported feature. ok, I 'll separate hotplug and hotunplug patches for next version of the patchseries (maybe even offer hotunplug in a separate series) thanks, - Vasilis -- 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
