From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"jeremy@goop.org" <jeremy@goop.org>,
"hpa@zytor.com" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@kernel.org>,
"xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 07/10] xen/mmu: Work with 1-1 mappings when allocating new top/middle entries.
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 12:47:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101222174728.GA24483@dumpdata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1293008071.3998.41.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 08:54:31AM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 21:37 +0000, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > We were not properly taking under advisement the 1-1 mappings
> > when a large area of memory was ballooned out.
>
> Are we lazily allocating the p2m tree nodes for regions initially
> covered by the balloon? (perhaps we have always done this and it isn't
> new with this series)
Before: Yes
Now: Yes.
>
> Would it be simpley to always populate enough tree nodes to cover the
> ballooned area as well as nr_pages at start of day and therefore avoid
> worrying about it later on (except for memory hotplug which is special
> in this way already)?
Tried that, ran out of reserved_brk space :-) But not sure what
we would gain for this - it is not always guaranteed that we will populate
up to the memory 'maxmem' region.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-22 17:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-21 21:37 [RFC PATCH v1] Consider void entries in the P2M as 1-1 mapping Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-12-21 21:37 ` [PATCH 01/10] xen: Make all reserved pages for the balloon be INVALID_P2M_ENTRY Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-12-21 22:19 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-12-21 23:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-12-22 8:47 ` [Xen-devel] " Ian Campbell
2010-12-22 8:47 ` Ian Campbell
2010-12-22 14:53 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-12-22 15:46 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-12-21 21:37 ` [PATCH 02/10] xen/p2m: change p2m_missing_* to p2m_identity_* Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-12-21 22:41 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-12-22 14:59 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-12-22 20:36 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-12-22 20:36 ` [SPAM] " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-12-21 21:37 ` [PATCH 03/10] xen/mmu: Add the notion of IDENTITY_P2M_ENTRY Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-12-22 8:44 ` [Xen-devel] " Ian Campbell
2010-12-22 8:44 ` Ian Campbell
2010-12-21 21:37 ` [PATCH 04/10] xen/mmu: For 1-1 mapping, automatically set _PAGE_IOMAP Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-12-21 22:29 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-12-22 15:02 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-12-22 16:27 ` [Xen-devel] " Ian Campbell
2010-12-21 21:37 ` [PATCH 05/10] xen/setup: Set identity mapping for non-RAM E820 and E820 gaps Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-12-21 22:34 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-12-22 15:04 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-12-22 8:49 ` [Xen-devel] " Ian Campbell
2010-12-21 21:37 ` [PATCH 06/10] xen/setup: Only set identity mapping in E820 regions when privileged Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-12-21 22:37 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-12-22 15:07 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-12-21 21:37 ` [PATCH 07/10] xen/mmu: Work with 1-1 mappings when allocating new top/middle entries Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-12-21 22:37 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-12-22 15:10 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-12-22 8:54 ` [Xen-devel] " Ian Campbell
2010-12-22 17:47 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2010-12-21 21:37 ` [PATCH 08/10] xen/mmu: Bugfix. Fill the top entry page with appropriate middle layer pointers Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-12-21 22:38 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-12-22 15:11 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-12-21 21:37 ` [PATCH 09/10] xen/mmu: Be aware of p2m_[mid_|]missing when saving/restore Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-12-21 21:37 ` [PATCH 10/10] xen/mmu: Warn against races Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-12-22 8:36 ` [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH v1] Consider void entries in the P2M as 1-1 mapping Ian Campbell
2010-12-22 15:06 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-12-22 16:26 ` Ian Campbell
2010-12-22 18:01 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
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