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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Paging and memory sharing for HVM guests


  • To: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Grzegorz Milos <gm281@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:04:14 +0000
  • Cc: Patrick Colp <pjcolp@xxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Andrew Peace <Andrew.Peace@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Live migration is something we've got on our to-check lists. There is
no reason why it shouldn't work properly (albeit slow if many pages
have been swapped out). We'll test and report back :). In the meantime
I vote against setting "no_migrate" on, if only because we'll get more
bug reports , even if it works for us.

Thanks
Gregor

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Dan Magenheimer
<dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Does live migration work (reliably) when pages have been
>> swapped out?
>
> Never got an answer on this.  If the answer is NO or
> not yet (and not likely in time for 4.0), I'd suggest
> that a domain that enables page sharing should also
> automagically turn on the "no_migrate" flag.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dan Magenheimer
>> Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 9:20 AM
>> To: Grzegorz Milos; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Patrick
>> Colp; Andrew
>> Peace; Keir Fraser
>> Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Paging and memory sharing for HVM
>> guests
>>
>>
>> Does live migration work (reliably) when pages have been
>> swapped out?  IIRC, this is a limitation of VMware's
>> implementation (or at least was a limitation at one
>> point).
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Grzegorz Milos [mailto:gm281@xxxxxxxxx]
>> > Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 4:15 PM
>> > To: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Patrick Colp; Andrew Peace; Keir
>> > Fraser
>> > Subject: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Paging and memory sharing for
>> HVM guests
>> >
>> >
>> > The series of 46 patches attached to this email contain the initial
>> > implementation of memory paging and sharing for Xen. Patrick Colp
>> > leads the work on the pager, and I am mostly responsible for memory
>> > sharing. We would be grateful for any comments/suggestions you might
>> > have. Individual patches are labeled with comments describing their
>> > purpose and a sign-off footnote. Of course we are happy to discuss
>> > them in more detail, as required. Assuming that there are no major
>> > objections against including them in the mainstream
>> xen-unstable tree,
>> > we would like to move future development to that tree.
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> > Patrick & Gregor
>> >
>

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