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Re: [Xen-devel][PATCH]: Support dynamic resizing of vbds

To: Ky Srinivasan <ksrinivasan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel][PATCH]: Support dynamic resizing of vbds
From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 22:35:57 +0200
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On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 01:31:17PM -0700, Ky Srinivasan wrote:
> 
> 
> >>> On 3/9/2010 at  3:15 PM, in message <20100309201529.GH1878@xxxxxxxxxxx>, 
> >>> Pasi
> Kärkkäinen<pasik@xxxxxx> wrote: 
> > On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 12:56:11PM -0700, Ky Srinivasan wrote:
> >> The attached patch supports dynamic resizing of vbds.
> >> 
> > 
> > Nice! Did you also implement the xm/xend side of resizing? 
> My goal was to not have the end-user do anything other than what 
> was minimally required to  resizing the device on the host side. 
> Once the device is resized on the host side, this capacity change 
> is propagated to the guest without having to invoke any xm command.
> 

Oh, even better!
What version of the kernel did you test with? 2.6.27? 

-- Pasi

> Regards,
> 
> K. Y
> > 
> > I implemented xm/xend support for online resizing a couple of months ago, 
> > but I was not done with the blkback/blkfront code yet.. well, no need for 
> > that now :)
> > 
> > -- Pasi
> 

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