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From: "Chen, Tiejun" <tiejun.chen@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [v4][PATCH 11/19] tools: introduce some new
 parameters to set rdm policy
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 09:01:13 +0800
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>>>> Just let me rephrase this,
>>>>
>>>> "none" means we don't check any reserved regions and then all rdm
>>>> policies would be ignored, so guest just work as before.
>>>
>>> When or why would I write:
>>>          rdm = "none"
>>> in my configuration file instead of just not saying anything?
>>
>> As you know we just have two options, "none" vs. "host". So we need a
>> explicit flag as a default libxl value to work out our mechanism.
>>
>> +libxl_rdm_reserve_type = Enumeration("rdm_reserve_type", [
>> +    (0, "none"),
>> +    (1, "host"),
>> +    ])
>> +
>>
>> We just think this name can make sense, right?
>>
>
> What Ian was getting at was specifying type=none is the same as not
> specifying at all. So on *xl* level we can just expose "host" as the

Yes, but this is just a default value so user can set explicitly or 
don't specify anything in guest .cfg file, I think both cases should be 
allowed, shouldn't they?

Thanks
Tiejun

> only valid type.
>
> Ian, correct me if I misunderstand.
>
> Wei.
>