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


>>> On 3/11/2010 at  4:44 PM, in message <4B996436.1000600@xxxxxxxx>, Jeremy
Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> On 03/11/2010 12:15 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>> 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.
>>    
> 
> It applied fairly cleanly, but I haven't tested it yet.  Ky, by 2.6.32 I 
> assume I mean your one, not pvops? (Because your patch is touching 
> blkfront in the wrong place.)

Yes. This patch was against our sles11 sp1.

Regards,

K. Y
> 
>      J
> 
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