IIRC, one of the issue of Linux running on LPAR (Logical Partitioning) is the monolith kernel do not dynamically release memory thats why DLPAR (Dynamic LPAR) will not work on the fly, e.g. moving cpus and memories, and requires system reboot. This is something we could do on the fly on AIX on LPAR with a profile that set minimum, required and maximum amount of cpu or memory that can be DLPARed.
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