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Re: [Xen-devel] RFC: large system support - 128 CPUs
Keir Fraser wrote:
> On 13/8/08 09:22, "Tim Deegan" <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> At 09:21 +0100 on 13 Aug (1218619274), Jan Beulich wrote:
>>> Both seem to be hacks to get to 128 CPUs, without consideration of how
>>> to go beyond that
>> I think the shadow_page_info one is a general fix for my implicit
>> assumption that sizeof(cpumask_t) == sizeof (long).
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> Do some fields after the cpumask need to line up in both structures? Placing
> a dummy cpumask in the shadow_page structure might make most sense.
Yes, there is a check that a field of page_info and a
field of the shadow_page_info are at the same offset.
Both compile time checks are in private.h
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> For the other one I'll have to think a bit. The need for GDT entries per CPU
> currently obviously means scaling much past a few hundred CPUs is going to
> be difficult.
Yes, would like something better here. And as I said, we
don't know yet that just adding the additional page solves
anything.
Bill
>
> -- Keir
>
>
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