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author | RajithaY <rajithax.yerrumsetty@intel.com> | 2017-04-25 03:31:15 -0700 |
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committer | Rajitha Yerrumchetty <rajithax.yerrumsetty@intel.com> | 2017-05-22 06:48:08 +0000 |
commit | bb756eebdac6fd24e8919e2c43f7d2c8c4091f59 (patch) | |
tree | ca11e03542edf2d8f631efeca5e1626d211107e3 /qemu/docs/memory-hotplug.txt | |
parent | a14b48d18a9ed03ec191cf16b162206998a895ce (diff) |
Adding qemu as a submodule of KVMFORNFV
This Patch includes the changes to add qemu as a submodule to
kvmfornfv repo and make use of the updated latest qemu for the
execution of all testcase
Change-Id: I1280af507a857675c7f81d30c95255635667bdd7
Signed-off-by:RajithaY<rajithax.yerrumsetty@intel.com>
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diff --git a/qemu/docs/memory-hotplug.txt b/qemu/docs/memory-hotplug.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 56bdd0a47..000000000 --- a/qemu/docs/memory-hotplug.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,93 +0,0 @@ -QEMU memory hotplug -=================== - -This document explains how to use the memory hotplug feature in QEMU, -which is present since v2.1.0. - -Guest support is required for memory hotplug to work. - -Basic RAM hotplug ------------------ - -In order to be able to hotplug memory, QEMU has to be told how many -hotpluggable memory slots to create and what is the maximum amount of -memory the guest can grow. This is done at startup time by means of -the -m command-line option, which has the following format: - - -m [size=]megs[,slots=n,maxmem=size] - -Where, - - - "megs" is the startup RAM. It is the RAM the guest will boot with - - "slots" is the number of hotpluggable memory slots - - "maxmem" is the maximum RAM size the guest can have - -For example, the following command-line: - - qemu [...] 1G,slots=3,maxmem=4G - -Creates a guest with 1GB of memory and three hotpluggable memory slots. -The hotpluggable memory slots are empty when the guest is booted, so all -memory the guest will see after boot is 1GB. The maximum memory the -guest can reach is 4GB. This means that three additional gigabytes can be -hotplugged by using any combination of the available memory slots. - -Two monitor commands are used to hotplug memory: - - - "object_add": creates a memory backend object - - "device_add": creates a front-end pc-dimm device and inserts it - into the first empty slot - -For example, the following commands add another 1GB to the guest -discussed earlier: - - (qemu) object_add memory-backend-ram,id=mem1,size=1G - (qemu) device_add pc-dimm,id=dimm1,memdev=mem1 - -Using the file backend ----------------------- - -Besides basic RAM hotplug, QEMU also supports using files as a memory -backend. This is useful for using hugetlbfs in Linux, which provides -access to bigger page sizes. - -For example, assuming that the host has 1GB hugepages available in -the /mnt/hugepages-1GB directory, a 1GB hugepage could be hotplugged -into the guest from the previous section with the following commands: - - (qemu) object_add memory-backend-file,id=mem1,size=1G,mem-path=/mnt/hugepages-1GB - (qemu) device_add pc-dimm,id=dimm1,memdev=mem1 - -It's also possible to start a guest with memory cold-plugged into the -hotpluggable memory slots. This might seem counterintuitive at first, -but this allows for a lot of flexibility when using the file backend. - -In the following command-line example, a 8GB guest is created where 6GB -comes from regular RAM, 1GB is a 1GB hugepage page and 256MB is from -2MB pages. Also, the guest has additional memory slots to hotplug more -2GB if needed: - - qemu [...] -m 6GB,slots=4,maxmem=10G \ - -object memory-backend-file,id=mem1,size=1G,mem-path=/mnt/hugepages-1G \ - -device pc-dimm,id=dimm1,memdev=mem1 \ - -object memory-backend-file,id=mem2,size=256M,mem-path=/mnt/hugepages-2MB \ - -device pc-dimm,id=dimm2,memdev=mem2 - - -RAM hot-unplug ---------------- - -In order to be able to hot unplug pc-dimm device, QEMU has to be told the ids -of pc-dimm device and memory backend object. The ids were assigned when you hot -plugged memory. - -Two monitor commands are used to hot unplug memory: - - - "device_del": deletes a front-end pc-dimm device - - "object_del": deletes a memory backend object - -For example, assuming that the pc-dimm device with id "dimm1" exists, and its memory -backend is "mem1", the following commands tries to remove it. - - (qemu) device_del dimm1 - (qemu) object_del mem1 |