Re: [Xen-devel] [v4][PATCH 11/19] tools: introduce some new parameters to set rdm policy

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tiejun Chen writes ("[v4][PATCH 11/19] tools: introduce some new parameters to 
set rdm policy"):
> This patch introduces user configurable parameters to specify RDM
> resource and according policies,
...
> Global RDM parameter, "type", allows user to specify reserved regions
> explicitly, e.g. using 'host' to include all reserved regions reported
> on this platform which is good to handle hotplug scenario. In the future
> this parameter may be further extended to allow specifying random regions,
> e.g. even those belonging to another platform as a preparation for live
> migration with passthrough devices. Instead, 'none' means we have nothing
> to do all reserved regions and ignore all policies, so guest work as before.

I think the description in the documentation needs to have more
user-focused information.  It's not quite clear to me what the
tradeoffs are of the different options.


(Your use of "random" here is rather information.  You should say
"arbitrary".)

Ian.

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