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

[Xen-devel] Re: non-zero order allocations in shadow code may prevent li

To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: non-zero order allocations in shadow code may prevent live migration
From: Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:50:24 +0100
Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Delivery-date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 03:51:02 -0700
Envelope-to: www-data@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <46FB995B.76E4.0078.0@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>
References: <46FB995B.76E4.0078.0@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sender: xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)
At 10:51 +0100 on 27 Sep (1190890315), Jan Beulich wrote:
> So the bottom line is - sh_set_allocation() really shouldn't need to allocate
> non-zero order pages except for hvm domains.

Actually, if you're having fragmentation issues, won't that stop you
from booting HVM domains as well?

Tim.

-- 
Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, XenSource UK Limited
Registered office c/o EC2Y 5EB, UK; company number 05334508

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