Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] RFC: initial libxl support for xenpaging

[Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 17, Ian Campbell wrote:

> On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 15:24 +0000, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > Where do you see the complexity?
> 
> For users in determining what changing a given value will actually do,
> what values they need to use to get the behaviour which they want, what
> happens if they change first one value and then the other, how do they
> interact with mem-set and memmax, what are the various invalid or
> meaningless combinations etc.
> 
> There's also complexity for us in trying to decide what the right answer
> is to each of those questions and trying to implement it in a consistent
> way and explain it all to users.

A figure like the one in tools/libxl/libxl_memory.txt will explain it
very well, if done right.
Perhaps I should write up something based on that figure.

Olaf

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