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

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 16:55 +0000, Andres Lagar-Cavilla wrote:
> May I suggest you call these things 'memory' and 'footprint'? Users can
> adjust the memory the guest thinks it has (#2 above), and the footprint
> the domain will actually occupy (#3).

Footprint isn't a bad idea for that name.

> Then footprint can be adjusted by paging or something else. I don't want
> to begin to think about how PoD would jive there. It only seems to affect
> 'footprint' during bootup.

Yeah, it's basically a special case pager.

Ian.


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