On Jan 18, 2014, at 12:03 AM, Wangshen (Peter) <pete...@huawei.com> wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Vishvananda Ishaya [mailto:vishvana...@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 1:01 AM
>> To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
>> Cc: Jinbo (Justin)
>> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] question of vcpu-memory-hotplug progress
> 
>> Can you provide more information on how this is implemented? Support in
>> kvm seems spotty and there are likely guests that don't support it all. The
>> memory hotplug idea doesn't even seem to exist.
> 
> Cpu hotplug feature has been implemented in since qemu(version 1.6.2) and 
> libvirt(version 1.2). Based on them we did a preliminary implementation 
> (using libvirt's setvpusflags interfaces), and successfully tested on the 
> guest (both fedora 18 and windows 2008 datacenter edition).
> Although some older operating system does not support cpu hotplug, we still 
> think it is useful for someone who use the operating system which support.
> 
>> Note that you need to set a milestone before it will be put in the queue to
>> be reviewed.
>> 
>> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Blueprints#Blueprint_Review_Criteria
>> 
>> In this particular case I think there needs to be a lot more information
>> about the plan for implementation before I would think it is valuable to
>> spend time on this feature.
>> 
> 
> The current bluprint contains cpu hotplug and memory hotplug features. But 
> the two features are independent with each other. So whether it's better to 
> split it into two blueprints, cpu hotplug and memory hotplug, for 
> accelerating the progress of the blueprints and easy to follow the progress?
> If you agree with our suggestion, we will submit a new blueprint of cpu 
> hotplug, as Blueprint_Review_Criteria.

Yes split it into multiple blueprints, one for each feature.

Vish

> 
> Thanks. 
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