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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/3] xen: allow balloon driver to use more th

To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/3] xen: allow balloon driver to use more than one memory region
From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:03:28 +0100
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On 16/08/11 15:48, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 03:21:03PM +0100, David Vrabel wrote:
>> On 16/08/11 14:38, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
>>> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 11:00:36AM +0100, David Vrabel wrote:
>>>> Allow the xen balloon driver to populate its list of extra pages from
>>>> more than one region of memory.  This will allow platforms to provide
>>>> (for example) a region of low memory and a region of high memory.
>>>
>>> What does this solve? Is this a requirement for another patch? If so
>>> please specify the name of it.
>     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>    ?

Sorry.  This is required for patch 2/3 in this series. "xen: allow extra
memory to be [in] two regions"

I thought it sensible to break this out into its own patch.

David

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