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Re: [Xen-devel] How to increase the Xen heap

To: alex <leiye.xen@xxxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] How to increase the Xen heap
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 07:47:35 +0100
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You cannot increase the size of 32-bit Xen heap. You need to run 64-bit Xen.

 -- Keir

On 11/08/2010 07:33, "alex" <leiye.xen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I am using 32-bit Xen and Xen heap is limited in size.
> 
>  
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:25 PM, alex <leiye.xen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>  
>> I wrote some code in Xen hypervisor. It allocates an array to track the
>> runtime statistics. When I use _xmalloc to allocate the array from xen heap,
>> it fails with "No enough memory". I check the Xen heap via "xm dmesg", it
>> shows 9MB, while the size of the array is around 14MB. I try to reduce the
>> array size, it succeed without any problem and works correctly. My question
>> is how to increase the Xen heap because I will put other fields into array
>> data structure. Or can I allocate from dom heap? If that, are there some
>> sample code? 
>>  
>> Thank you.
>>  
>> Alex
> 
> 



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