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> From: Jiang, Yunhong [mailto:yunhong.jiang at intel.com]
> > From: John Garbutt [mailto:John.Garbutt at citrix.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 12:08 AM
> > To: OpenStack Development Mailing List; Vishvananda Ishaya
> > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] Some idea on device assignment support
> >
> > 2) What about unifying Memory, CPU, GPU, Disks et al?
> > I see this are all "consumable resources" with configurable/optional
> > "over -commit".
> 
> I think another difference is, CPU/Memory is not exclusively, while GPU/VT-
> d device is in fact exclusively, that means the ownership management may
> have some difference.

I tried to express that by saying "configurable/optional over-commit"

For example, in XenServer you may not have the edition that supports memory over-commit.
I was also thinking towards when virtual GPU support comes along; at that point you are back to being similar to CPU allocation.
 
John