[RFCv2 9/9] pseries: Automatically resize HPT for memory hot add/remove

Paul Mackerras paulus at ozlabs.org
Mon Feb 8 17:01:16 AEDT 2016


On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 04:24:03PM +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> We've now implemented code in the pseries platform to use the new PAPR
> interface to allow resizing the hash page table (HPT) at runtime.
> 
> This patch uses that interface to automatically attempt to resize the HPT
> when memory is hot added or removed.  This tries to always keep the HPT at
> a reasonable size for our current memory size.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david at gibson.dropbear.id.au>

Reviewed-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>


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