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Re: [Xen-devel] RFC: large system support - 128 CPUs

To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] RFC: large system support - 128 CPUs
From: Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:22:56 +0100
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Bill Burns <bburns@xxxxxxxxxx>
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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).

Tim.

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