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Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH 0/12] various fixes related the xen relocati

To: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH 0/12] various fixes related the xen relocation
From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 06:57:13 -0700
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On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 16:37 +0900, Isaku Yamahata wrote:
> When Xen was made relocatable, some code are broken.
> This patch set addresses on it.
> 
> I went little further. Some of the assembler functions related to 
> context switch maps stack, others doesn't. It isn't consistent.
> So there were two choice for consistency. My choice is mapping stacks.
> After that, it isn't necessary that stack is allocated from xenheap.
> Allocate stack from domheap, thus memory pressure on xenheap was
> reduced.

   That looks like a good improvement.  I'm still expecting this series
to go in after 3.2.0.  Are there any pieces we should consider for
inclusion earlier?  Thanks,

        Alex

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Alex Williamson                             HP Open Source & Linux Org.


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