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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] PoD: Handle operations properly when domain is d

To: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] PoD: Handle operations properly when domain is dying
From: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:56:35 +0000
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Dan Magenheimer wrote:
I understand that from your (developer's) point of view
but 99% or more of your customers won't know what a p2m
table is or what populating it means and will assume
(as I did earlier), since this is a memory-related
feature, that "populate" refers to utilizing RAM.
Since almost all the code referring to PoD is in a place that only a devloper should look (in the hypervisor, and a little bit in the hvm domain builder), I think the naming (at least internally) is appropriate. One could imagine "shadow memory" being mis-interpreted in a similar fashion. :-)

PoD is only one piece of the puzzle required to allow booting pre-ballooned. If you feel like we need a name "marketing name" for the whole feature to put in annoucements and changelogs, feel free to suggest one. :-)

In XenServer, the whole thing will come under the umbrella of "Dynamic Memory Control".

I guess that makes sense in the Windows world where "distros"
can be counted on one or two hands.
My guess is that Linux as a whole will have much less variance than Windows. But we're not testing HVM Linux ATM.

-George


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