Messages in this thread | | | From | Nuutti Kotivuori <> | Subject | Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [XEN] using shmfs for swapspace | Date | Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:33:10 +0200 |
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Mark Williamson wrote: > If multiple platforms want to do this, we could refactor the code so > that the core of the balloon driver can be used in multiple archs. > We could have an arch_release/request_memory() that the core balloon > driver can call into to actually return memory to the VMM.
This is also a thing that the UML project would probably be interested in.
As a generalization though, what is needed is hot-pluggable memory in Linux kernel. Satisfies Xen, UML and any physical implementations at some point.
-- Naked
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