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Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH] increase hv memory reservation

To: Jarod Wilson <jwilson@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH] increase hv memory reservation
From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:28:32 -0600
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On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 17:07 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> Not sure if this is actually relevant for hg tip anymore, but with Red
> Hat's rebase to xen 3.1.2, that if we try to allocate "all" 
> memory to dom0, we're not leaving enough for the hypervisor anymore.
> Our quick fix was to simply increase the reservation 
> guestimate by 128M.

   This does still seem to be relevant, I can make my system unbootable
by specifying max_addr=1G dom0_mem=1G.  With the patch, it boots up and
I can even still create a 256M domU.  Applied.  Thanks,

        Alex

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