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

On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 01:39:23PM -0700, Ky Srinivasan wrote:
> 
> 
> >>> On 3/9/2010 at  3:35 PM, in message <20100309203557.GJ1878@xxxxxxxxxxx>, 
> >>> Pasi
> Kärkkäinen<pasik@xxxxxx> wrote: 
> > On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 01:31:17PM -0700, Ky Srinivasan wrote:
> >> 
> >> 
> >> >>> On 3/9/2010 at  3:15 PM, in message 
> >> >>> <20100309201529.GH1878@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Pasi
> >> Kärkkäinen<pasik@xxxxxx> wrote: 
> >> > On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 12:56:11PM -0700, Ky Srinivasan wrote:
> >> >> The attached patch supports dynamic resizing of vbds.
> >> >> 
> >> > 
> >> > Nice! Did you also implement the xm/xend side of resizing? 
> >> My goal was to not have the end-user do anything other than what 
> >> was minimally required to  resizing the device on the host side. 
> >> Once the device is resized on the host side, this capacity change 
> >> is propagated to the guest without having to invoke any xm command.
> >> 
> > 
> > Oh, even better!
> > What version of the kernel did you test with? 2.6.27? 
> I tested this on 2.6.32. The patches should apply to earlier kernels without 
> too much trouble.
> 

Great!

Jeremy: Hopefully you can add this patch to your tree.

James: Would be nice to have similar online-resizing support also in gplpv 
frontends!

-- Pasi


> Regards,
> 
> K. Y
> > 
> > -- Pasi
> > 
> >> Regards,
> >> 
> >> K. Y
> >> > 
> >> > I implemented xm/xend support for online resizing a couple of months 
> >> > ago, 
> >> > but I was not done with the blkback/blkfront code yet.. well, no need 
> >> > for 
> >> > that now :)
> >> > 
> >> > -- Pasi
> >> 
> 

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