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Re: [Xen-devel][PATCH]: Support dynamic resizing of vbds

To: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel][PATCH]: Support dynamic resizing of vbds
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:49:47 -0700
Cc: Ky Srinivasan <ksrinivasan@xxxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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On 07/20/2010 11:29 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:37:51AM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>   
>> On 07/20/2010 10:28 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>>     
>>> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 02:01:20PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> On 03/18/2010 01:28 PM, Ky Srinivasan wrote:
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>>> The attached patch supports dynamic resizing of vbds. This patch fixes a 
>>>>> bug in the previous version of this patch that was sent out. With this 
>>>>> patch you can perform "online" resizing of  file systems that support 
>>>>> online resizing.
>>>>>    
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>> Please send a delta against the previous patch, since it has already  
>>>> been applied.
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Btw dynamic vbd resize is something we should get into mainline Linux..
>>>   
>>>       
>> Good point.  I created a branch called "upstream/blkfront" with a
>> candidate set of blkfront changes to send.  Could you test it out?
>>
>>     
> Sure. I can test it tomorrow.
>   

Thanks.

> it seems xen/stable-2.6.32.x branch already has these patches 
> so dom0 side is easy for the test..
>
> should I try the blkfront patches against the latest Linus git tree, or 
> 2.6.34, or ?
>   

That branch, upstream/blkfront, is rebased onto v2.6.34, so you can test
it as-is, or merge it into the current linux-2.6 branch (which is a
clean merge).

    J

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