[PATCH 1/1] NEWS.rst: update with NVDIMM auto-alignment removal for pSeries

Daniel Henrique Barboza danielhb413 at gmail.com
Mon Aug 24 17:57:37 UTC 2020


Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413 at gmail.com>
---
 NEWS.rst | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index d92714c29b..7ae4aa9340 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -20,6 +20,17 @@ v6.7.0 (unreleased)
     Sparse streams (e.g. ``virsh vol-download --sparse`` or ``virsh vol-upload
     --sparse``) now handle if one of the stream ends is a block device.
 
+  * Remove NVDIMM auto-alignment for pSeries Guests
+
+    This feature was introduced in libvirt v6.2.0 as part of the overall
+    NVDIMM support for pSeries guests. The idea was to relieve the user
+    from knowing ppc64 alignment details, but the end result is that we
+    ended up with inconsistencies between domain XML and actual NVDIMM
+    size the guest is using. To promote consistency between domain XML
+    and the guest, unaligned NVDIMM sizes for pSeries guests will now be
+    forbid and no size auto-alignment will be made. Instead, libvirt will
+    suggest an aligned round up size for the user.
+
 * **Bug fixes**
 
   * virdevmapper: Deal with kernels without DM support
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2.26.2




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