On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 08:51:16AM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote: > > That is fine for linux, but hotplug doesn't exist in xen (as far as I > > can tell), so it would be really nice to have this kind of mechanism, > > even if only in xen. Do you have any idea why it wasn't working? > > I would have thought that hotplug would be useful for Xen ... surely > it is a good thing for the hypervisor to be able to synch with the > guest about the actual resources that are available to it. That would > allow the guest to make rational scheduling decisions (if it thinks that > it has 4 cpus, but really the hypervisor is only giving it 3 cpus, then > load balancing on the guest will be a farce).
That is true. I will poke around and see if the infastructure is there. However, if its not, having kxec_fake_sal_rendezvous seems to be a resaonable stop-gap measure for kexec to use. -- Horms H: http://www.vergenet.net/~horms/ W: http://www.valinux.co.jp/en/ _______________________________________________ fastboot mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/fastboot
