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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] ioemu: directly project all memory on x86_64

To: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] ioemu: directly project all memory on x86_64
From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:38:44 +0000
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Keir Fraser, le Wed 23 Jan 2008 16:30:27 +0000, a écrit :
> I don't really want the memory-size parameter back. What if we support
> memory hotplug in future (e.g., we could do now if the guest decides to
> balloon in some memory higher up in its memory map)?

Well, the question holds for ia64 too, which already projects all
memory.

> Anyway I don't see what getting rid of the mapcache fixes.

Well, that was mostly to speed up memory lookup in the usual case, I
don't really need it.

Samuel

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