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Re: [Xen-devel] page ref/type count overflows

To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] page ref/type count overflows
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:03:56 +0000
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On 27/01/2009 15:49, "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>>>> Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 27.01.09 16:38 >>>
>> So... For the rest I thought I would leave it in your court. Since you might
>> be looking into it already. :-) What I see needing still to be done:
>> * Shrink list_head
>> * Shrink u.inuse._domain
>> * Also will need to shrink sh_page_info (currently 48 bytes). It contains a
>> few chain pointers which you could probably compress down like page_info's
>> list_head.
> 
> Yes, I think I already have about half of the needed changes done.

Excellent. Mine is now in as c/s 19103. You'll need that to get down to 32
bytes.

 -- Keir



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