[Xen-devel] RE: [PATCH] XML-RPC: Cope with large integers on x86

To:	"Anthony Liguori" <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Ewan Mellor" <ewan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:	[Xen-devel] RE: [PATCH] XML-RPC: Cope with large integers on x86-64 systems
From:	"Puthiyaparambil, Aravindh" <aravindh.puthiyaparambil@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Tue, 28 Mar 2006 13:26:44 -0500
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> This is a pretty big hack which based on Aravindh's note may not be as
> important as I thought it was.  Aravindh bumped NR_CPUS which
increased
> the size of vcpu_avail.  I've audited the interface and the only place
> that large ints can be passed around are in the S-Expressions.  The
> S-Expressions are untyped so the user always has to manually do type
> conversion.  Passing the S-Expressions as strings is always safe.

I changed the DomU NR_CPUS to 8 and tried "xm list" without your patch.
I still hit the issue. I think it has to do with the fact that we
running on a 32-way system. So this is going to be an issue on our big
ES7000 systems.

Aravindh

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