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RE: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/6] Add memory add support to Xen

To: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Jiang, Yunhong" <yunhong.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>, Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>, Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/6] Add memory add support to Xen
From: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:42:41 -0700 (PDT)
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I seem to recall that an AML interpreter is larger than
an entire hypervisor.  This was a few years ago so may
not still be valid, but if it is anywhere near true,
it seems like a potential issue. :-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keir Fraser [mailto:keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2009 3:48 AM
> To: Jiang, Yunhong; Jan Beulich; Tim Deegan;
> xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/6] Add memory add support to Xen
> 
> 
> On 28/06/2009 10:26, "Jiang, Yunhong" <yunhong.jiang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > BTW, we also want to have some discussion on how to support 
> memory hot add.
> > The main challenges comes from ACPI.
> > When memory hot add happen, it will trigger an ACPI event. 
> The ACPI driver
> > will get memory device's resource information, including 
> start/end address,
> > NUMA informatin (proximity domain information) etc and in 
> the end add the
> > memory to OSPM.
> > In Xen, the ACPI event will be handled firstly by Dom0 , 
> but dom0 have no idea
> > of physical memory. The real memory adding should happen in Xen HV.
> > 
> > There are several option to support it.
> > a) Move the ACPI event to Xen HV, that is sure to be a big changes.
> 
> There's been some discussion of making Xen the OSPM instead 
> of dom0 (and
> hence giving Xen an AML interpreter, etc). Could be an 
> interesting thing to
> think about. I'm not sure how well it would work since there 
> will still be
> aspects of platform management that dom0 is in control of and would
> logically be the OSPM for.
> 
>  -- Keir
> 
> 
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