Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/6] PM extension to domU

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/2/07 01:25, "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> Have you considered destroying and recreating driver domains rather
>> than
>> sleeping them? They are stateless after all, and should be quick (enough)
>> to
>> boot.
> 
> Sorry that I don't quite understand you. For suspend-to-disk, maybe
> we can use that policy to recreate driver domains. But for
> suspend-to-ram, that process is still slow and we just need suspend
> domain itself. Also I'm not sure why it's stateless... How do you
> recover workloads after re-creation?

A proper driver domain would be little more than a device driver wrapped in
minios-style Xen-interfacing code. They should be quick to start, and
restart would lose no workload. I suppose there are people running device
drivers as part of a full guest however...

Is it necessary to sleep/wake non driver domains? Could we check in S3
support that would work for systems with all drivers in dom0, and then
consider this patchset as an extension?

 -- Keir



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