From: Nuutti Kotivuori <naked@iki.fi>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [XEN] using shmfs for swapspace
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:33:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87brbb9n6h.fsf@aka.i.naked.iki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200501262056.50981.maw48@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Mark Williamson wrote:
> If multiple platforms want to do this, we could refactor the code so
> that the core of the balloon driver can be used in multiple archs.
> We could have an arch_release/request_memory() that the core balloon
> driver can call into to actually return memory to the VMM.
This is also a thing that the UML project would probably be interested
in.
As a generalization though, what is needed is hot-pluggable memory in
Linux kernel. Satisfies Xen, UML and any physical implementations at
some point.
-- Naked
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-27 10:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-02 16:26 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2005-01-03 18:31 ` Joseph Fannin
2005-01-03 20:53 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2005-01-03 21:06 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-04 3:04 ` [Xen-devel] " Mark Williamson
2005-01-04 14:05 ` Rik van Riel
2005-01-06 11:38 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2005-01-05 0:11 ` Arnd Bergmann
2005-01-21 21:37 ` Rik van Riel
2005-01-26 20:56 ` Mark Williamson
2005-01-27 10:33 ` Nuutti Kotivuori [this message]
2005-01-03 21:07 ` Adam Heath
2005-01-04 9:30 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2005-01-04 14:06 ` Rik van Riel
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