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From: Dave McCracken <dcm@mccr.org>
To: Mick.Jordan@sun.com
Cc: Xen Developers List <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: Design question for PV superpage support
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 13:14:33 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200903021314.34075.dcm@mccr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49AC220E.9030000@Sun.COM>

On Monday 02 March 2009, Mick Jordan wrote:
> Ok. So I want to re-iterate my question from a previous post. After the
> patch allowing mixed mappings, what exactly went wrong on save/restore.
> And would my special case of 1-1 physival/virtual mappings with
> additional 2MB VM mappings adddress after domain start suffer in that case?

My understanding of save/restore is that it will save your carefully selected 
2M pages, cheerfully restore them onto a random set of mfns, then expect your 
guest to continue running.  I haven't studied it enough to know whether your 
guest at least gets a chance to intervene and fix things after the restore.

Dave McCracken
Oracle Corp.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-02 19:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-02 13:54 Design question for PV superpage support Dave McCracken
2009-03-02 13:58 ` Keir Fraser
2009-03-02 16:43 ` Mick Jordan
2009-03-02 17:06   ` Keir Fraser
2009-03-02 18:02     ` Mick Jordan
2009-03-02 17:29   ` Dave McCracken
2009-03-02 17:52     ` Keir Fraser
2009-03-02 18:03       ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-03-02 18:30         ` Keir Fraser
2009-03-02 18:46           ` Mick Jordan
2009-03-02 18:48           ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-03-02 19:04             ` Keir Fraser
2009-03-02 17:45   ` Mick Jordan
2009-03-02 17:54     ` Keir Fraser
2009-03-02 18:00     ` Dave McCracken
2009-03-02 18:14       ` Mick Jordan
2009-03-02 19:14         ` Dave McCracken [this message]
2009-03-03  1:37           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-03  3:59             ` Mick Jordan
2009-03-03 14:33               ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-03-03 17:06                 ` Mick Jordan
2009-03-03 17:23                   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-03 18:10                   ` Keir Fraser
2009-03-03 17:28                 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-03 18:09                   ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-03-03 17:26               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-03  1:32       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-03  1:15 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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