Re: Linux does not use more than the startup RAM under Hyper-V with dynamic memory enabled RE: [PATCH 2/2] Drivers: hv: balloon: Online the hot-added memory "in context" Re: [PATCH 1/1] Drivers: hv:

2014-03-07 Thread Victor Miasnikov
Hi! VVM VVM Question to Linux kernel team: may be patch VVM >>> [PATCH 2/2] Drivers: hv: balloon: Online the hot-added memory "in context" VVM can solve problems with dynamic memory hot add in Hyper-V VMs with Linux OS ? VVM K.Y.S>>> K.Y.S>>> I will try to get my

Re: Linux does not use more than the startup RAM under Hyper-V with dynamic memory enabled RE: [PATCH 2/2] Drivers: hv: balloon: Online the hot-added memory in context Re: [PATCH 1/1] Drivers: hv:

2014-03-07 Thread Victor Miasnikov
Hi! VVM VVM Question to Linux kernel team: may be patch VVM [PATCH 2/2] Drivers: hv: balloon: Online the hot-added memory in context VVM can solve problems with dynamic memory hot add in Hyper-V VMs with Linux OS ? VVM K.Y.S K.Y.S I will try to get my in-context onlining patches accepted

RE: Linux does not use more than the startup RAM under Hyper-V with dynamic memory enabled RE: [PATCH 2/2] Drivers: hv: balloon: Online the hot-added memory "in context" Re: [PATCH 1/1] Drivers: hv:

2014-03-06 Thread Jeff Leung
> So can I expect to see this patched by the next kernel version? I would hold your breath on this one. The maintainers of the memory subsystem has rejected the patch exposing certain functions so hv_balloon can online the newly added memory to the system. They think that having udev to handle

Re: Linux does not use more than the startup RAM under Hyper-V with dynamic memory enabled RE: [PATCH 2/2] Drivers: hv: balloon: Online the hot-added memory "in context" Re: [PATCH 1/1] Drivers: hv:

2014-03-06 Thread Brian Wong
On 3/6/2014 6:13 AM, Victor Miasnikov wrote: Hi! VVM>> Question to Linux kernel team: may be patch VVM>> >>> [PATCH 2/2] Drivers: hv: balloon: Online the hot-added memory "in context" VVM>> can solve problems with dynamic memory hot add in Hyper-V VMs with Linux OS ? K.Y.S> I will try to get

Re: Linux does not use more than the startup RAM under Hyper-V with dynamic memory enabled RE: [PATCH 2/2] Drivers: hv: balloon: Online the hot-added memory "in context" Re: [PATCH 1/1] Drivers: hv:

2014-03-06 Thread Victor Miasnikov
Hi! VVM>> Question to Linux kernel team: may be patch VVM>> >>> [PATCH 2/2] Drivers: hv: balloon: Online the hot-added memory "in context" VVM>> can solve problems with dynamic memory hot add in Hyper-V VMs with Linux OS ? K.Y.S> I will try to get my in-context onlining patches accepted

RE: Linux does not use more than the startup RAM under Hyper-V with dynamic memory enabled RE: [PATCH 2/2] Drivers: hv: balloon: Online the hot-added memory "in context" Re: [PATCH 1/1] Drivers: hv:

2014-03-06 Thread KY Srinivasan
Victor, I will try to get my in-context onlining patches accepted upstream. K. Y > -Original Message- > From: Victor Miasnikov [mailto:v...@tut.by] > Sent: Thursday, March 6, 2014 3:38 PM > To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Brian Wong > Cc: Abhishek Gupta (LIS); KY Srinivasan > Subject:

Re: Linux does not use more than the startup RAM under Hyper-V with dynamic memory enabled RE: [PATCH 2/2] Drivers: hv: balloon: Online the hot-added memory "in context" Re: [PATCH 1/1] Drivers: hv:

2014-03-06 Thread Victor Miasnikov
Hi! Short: Question to Linux kernel team: may be patch [PATCH 2/2] Drivers: hv: balloon: Online the hot-added memory "in context" can solve problems with dynamic memory hot add in Hyper-V VMs with Linux OS ? Full: BW>> .., if I set the startup memory to 512 MB, and enable dynamic BW>>

Re: Linux does not use more than the startup RAM under Hyper-V with dynamic memory enabled RE: [PATCH 2/2] Drivers: hv: balloon: Online the hot-added memory in context Re: [PATCH 1/1] Drivers: hv:

2014-03-06 Thread Victor Miasnikov
Hi! Short: Question to Linux kernel team: may be patch [PATCH 2/2] Drivers: hv: balloon: Online the hot-added memory in context can solve problems with dynamic memory hot add in Hyper-V VMs with Linux OS ? Full: BW .., if I set the startup memory to 512 MB, and enable dynamic BW memory

RE: Linux does not use more than the startup RAM under Hyper-V with dynamic memory enabled RE: [PATCH 2/2] Drivers: hv: balloon: Online the hot-added memory in context Re: [PATCH 1/1] Drivers: hv:

2014-03-06 Thread KY Srinivasan
Victor, I will try to get my in-context onlining patches accepted upstream. K. Y -Original Message- From: Victor Miasnikov [mailto:v...@tut.by] Sent: Thursday, March 6, 2014 3:38 PM To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Brian Wong Cc: Abhishek Gupta (LIS); KY Srinivasan Subject: Re:

Re: Linux does not use more than the startup RAM under Hyper-V with dynamic memory enabled RE: [PATCH 2/2] Drivers: hv: balloon: Online the hot-added memory in context Re: [PATCH 1/1] Drivers: hv:

2014-03-06 Thread Victor Miasnikov
Hi! VVM Question to Linux kernel team: may be patch VVM [PATCH 2/2] Drivers: hv: balloon: Online the hot-added memory in context VVM can solve problems with dynamic memory hot add in Hyper-V VMs with Linux OS ? K.Y.S I will try to get my in-context onlining patches accepted upstream.

Re: Linux does not use more than the startup RAM under Hyper-V with dynamic memory enabled RE: [PATCH 2/2] Drivers: hv: balloon: Online the hot-added memory in context Re: [PATCH 1/1] Drivers: hv:

2014-03-06 Thread Brian Wong
On 3/6/2014 6:13 AM, Victor Miasnikov wrote: Hi! VVM Question to Linux kernel team: may be patch VVM [PATCH 2/2] Drivers: hv: balloon: Online the hot-added memory in context VVM can solve problems with dynamic memory hot add in Hyper-V VMs with Linux OS ? K.Y.S I will try to get my

RE: Linux does not use more than the startup RAM under Hyper-V with dynamic memory enabled RE: [PATCH 2/2] Drivers: hv: balloon: Online the hot-added memory in context Re: [PATCH 1/1] Drivers: hv:

2014-03-06 Thread Jeff Leung
So can I expect to see this patched by the next kernel version? I would hold your breath on this one. The maintainers of the memory subsystem has rejected the patch exposing certain functions so hv_balloon can online the newly added memory to the system. They think that having udev to handle

Re: Linux does not use more than the startup RAM under Hyper-V with dynamic memory enabled

2014-03-05 Thread Brian Wong
On 3/6/2014 1:20 AM, Brian Wong wrote: I'm new to LKML, so please don't be too hard on me :) I'm running Gentoo Linux under Microsoft Client Hyper-V on Windows 8.1 Pro, and I've noticed some odd behavior with respect to dynamic memory (aka memory ballooning). The system will never use more than

Linux does not use more than the startup RAM under Hyper-V with dynamic memory enabled

2014-03-05 Thread Brian Wong
I'm new to LKML, so please don't be too hard on me :) I'm running Gentoo Linux under Microsoft Client Hyper-V on Windows 8.1 Pro, and I've noticed some odd behavior with respect to dynamic memory (aka memory ballooning). The system will never use more than the startup memory defined in the

Re: Linux does not use more than the startup RAM under Hyper-V with dynamic memory enabled

2014-03-05 Thread Brian Wong
On 3/6/2014 1:20 AM, Brian Wong wrote: I'm new to LKML, so please don't be too hard on me :) I'm running Gentoo Linux under Microsoft Client Hyper-V on Windows 8.1 Pro, and I've noticed some odd behavior with respect to dynamic memory (aka memory ballooning). The system will never use more than

Linux does not use more than the startup RAM under Hyper-V with dynamic memory enabled

2014-03-05 Thread Brian Wong
I'm new to LKML, so please don't be too hard on me :) I'm running Gentoo Linux under Microsoft Client Hyper-V on Windows 8.1 Pro, and I've noticed some odd behavior with respect to dynamic memory (aka memory ballooning). The system will never use more than the startup memory defined in the