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.

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