WARNING - OLD ARCHIVES

This is an archived copy of the Xen.org mailing list, which we have preserved to ensure that existing links to archives are not broken. The live archive, which contains the latest emails, can be found at http://lists.xen.org/
   
 
 
Xen 
 
Home Products Support Community News
 
   
 

xen-devel

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 3/4] domain heap allocator changes - remove bit w

To: Chris Lalancette <clalance@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 3/4] domain heap allocator changes - remove bit width restrictions
From: Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:25:24 +0000
Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Delivery-date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 05:24:43 -0800
Envelope-to: www-data@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <45E2DE5C.7050808@xxxxxxxxxx>
List-help: <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=help>
List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xensource.com>
List-post: <mailto:xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
List-subscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel>, <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=subscribe>
List-unsubscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel>, <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=unsubscribe>
Sender: xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thread-index: AcdZqZIr0LdSfsWcEdu1UwAX8io7RQ==
Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 3/4] domain heap allocator changes - remove bit width restrictions
User-agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.2.5.060620


On 26/2/07 13:19, "Chris Lalancette" <clalance@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>     Excuse me if I misunderstood, but I thought these were the patches
> to remove the DMA zone that were alluded to in the other thread about
> booting Xen on large memory machines.  If they are those patches, then I
> don't believe we actually need to limit dom0 memory; since the
> constrcut_dom0() allocation will come out of the single large zone, it
> should Just Work(tm).  If they aren't those patches, then these have
> nothing to do with each other; I apologize for the noise.

I think this whole issue is gone away now that Jan's patches are in the tree
and will be in the 3.0.5 release.

 -- Keir


_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel