Libvirt file backed memory
With the advent of large capacity memory devices, its now reasonable to run
virtual machines with file backed memory. This enables a much larger total
memory area per compute node
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- Dan Smith
- Priority:
- Low
- Drafter:
- Zack Cornelius
- Direction:
- Approved
- Assignee:
- Zack Cornelius
- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- Accepted for rocky
- Implementation:
-
Implemented
- Milestone target:
-
rocky-3
- Started by
- Matt Riedemann
- Completed by
- Matt Riedemann
Related branches
Related bugs
Sprints
Whiteboard
Gerrit topic: https:/
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Implement file backed memory for instances in libvirt
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Libvirt file backed memory
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Refactor libvirt get_memory_
Approved for the Rocky release. -- mriedem 20180530
As discussed in the #openstack-nova IRC channel today: note that the discard feature will be rolled into this blueprint when libvirt 4.4.0 is available (soon during the rocky cycle). -- melwitt 20180530
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DNM: Libvirt file backed memory
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Fix nits from change I676291ec0faa1d
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Implement discard for file backed memory
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Fix nits from change Ia7cf4414feb335
Functional changes are merged as of June 21. -- mriedem 20180622
Work Items
Dependency tree
* Blueprints in grey have been implemented.
