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Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC][PATCH] domheap optimization for NUMA

To: "Zhai, Edwin" <edwin.zhai@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC][PATCH] domheap optimization for NUMA
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:51:40 +0100
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On 7/4/08 14:25, "Zhai, Edwin" <edwin.zhai@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It's really good idea.

And now done and checked in.

> BTW,
> Do you think if need make xenheap allocation also NUMA aware in some case, e.g
> VMCS?

We could get rid of the xenheap allocator altogether, at least on x86/64.
Or, just for this case, alloc_domheap_pages() things like VMCS and then
map_domain_page_global() them.

 -- Keir



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