[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 13/17] SUPPORT.md: Add secondary memory management features
Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx> --- Changes since v2: - Add PoD entry - memsharing x86 -> experimental, ARM -> {} CC: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxx> CC: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> CC: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx> CC: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx> CC: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx> CC: Konrad Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> CC: Tim Deegan <tim@xxxxxxx> CC: Tamas K Lengyel <tamas.lengyel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- SUPPORT.md | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+) diff --git a/SUPPORT.md b/SUPPORT.md index 2d4386ad68..63f6a6d127 100644 --- a/SUPPORT.md +++ b/SUPPORT.md @@ -205,6 +205,43 @@ Export hypervisor coverage data suitable for analysis by gcov or lcov. Allows a guest to add or remove memory after boot-time. This is typically done by a guest kernel agent known as a "balloon driver". +### Populate-on-demand memory + + Status, x86 HVM: Supported + +This is a mechanism that allows normal operating systems with only a balloon driver +to boot with memory < maxmem. + +### Memory Sharing + + Status, x86 HVM: Expermental + +Allow sharing of identical pages between guests + +### Memory Paging + + Status, x86 HVM: Experimenal + +Allow pages belonging to guests to be paged to disk + +### Transcendent Memory + + Status: Experimental + +Transcendent Memory (tmem) allows the creation of hypervisor memory pools +which guests can use to store memory +rather than caching in its own memory or swapping to disk. +Having these in the hypervisor +can allow more efficient aggregate use of memory across VMs. + +### Alternative p2m + + Status, x86 HVM: Tech Preview + Status, ARM: Tech Preview + +Allows external monitoring of hypervisor memory +by maintaining multiple physical to machine (p2m) memory mappings. + ## Resource Management ### CPU Pools -- 2.15.0 _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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