[libvirt] [PATCH 0/5] RFC: configure inactive domains' maximum memory size

[Eric Blake]

On 03/21/2011 01:58 AM, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>   Rather than add a new API, now that we have virDomainSetMemoryFlags()
> I don't see why we could not use and extra flag on that API,
> VIR_DOMAIN_MAX_MEM and use the same entry point.

Agreed, and this was how I handled the vcpu issue (we had separate calls
for max vcpus vs. current vcpus, but the new vcpuFlag api covers both
cases).

> 
>   virDomainSetMaxMemory and virDomainSetMemory are separate because we
> didn't add a flag for them, that was a mistake, but now we can
> tunnel maximum memory changes though virDomainSetMemoryFlags()
> 
>   We would then allow
> VIR_DOMAIN_MEM_LIVE -> change live memory target
> VIR_DOMAIN_MEM_CONFIG -> change memory target on config i.e. next reboot
> VIR_DOMAIN_MEM_LIVE | VIR_DOMAIN_MAX_MEM -> change live max memory (if feasible)

This would imply memory hot-plugging, which is in itself an interesting
topic not currently supported by qemu, but which might be worth adding
someday in the future.  Of course, the API would fail where it is not
supported, but I agree that this flag combination might become useful in
the future.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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