From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: non-contiguous allocations
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 20:45:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110418184541.GA16935@aepfle.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1301656691.9447.88.camel@elijah>
On Fri, Apr 01, George Dunlap wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 19:04 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > Using the u16 means each cpu could in theory use up to 256MB as trace
> > buffer. However such a large allocation will currently fail on x86 due
> > to the MAX_ORDER limit.
>
> FWIW, I don't believe that there's any reason the allocations have to be
> contiguous any more. I kept them contiguous to minimize the changes to
> the moving parts near a release. But the new system has been pretty
> well tested now, so I think looking at non-contiguous allocations may be
> worthwhile.
George,
how do I allocate a few mfns and give them a virtual address?
I dont find a malloc like interface to allocate random pages.
Olaf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-18 18:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-30 18:04 [PATCH 0 of 3] xentrace updates Olaf Hering
2011-03-30 18:04 ` [PATCH 1 of 3] xentrace: correct formula to calculate t_info_pages Olaf Hering
2011-04-01 10:32 ` George Dunlap
2011-03-30 18:04 ` [PATCH 2 of 3] xentrace: use tbuf_size for overflow check Olaf Hering
2011-04-01 11:18 ` George Dunlap
2011-04-05 10:19 ` Olaf Hering
2011-04-07 13:50 ` Olaf Hering
2011-04-18 18:45 ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2011-04-26 11:51 ` non-contiguous allocations Jan Beulich
2011-05-06 10:25 ` Olaf Hering
2011-05-06 10:45 ` Jan Beulich
2011-05-06 18:12 ` Olaf Hering
2011-05-06 18:46 ` Keir Fraser
2011-05-07 8:39 ` Olaf Hering
2011-05-07 16:31 ` Keir Fraser
2011-05-09 8:30 ` Jan Beulich
2011-05-09 8:34 ` Keir Fraser
2011-05-09 12:43 ` Olaf Hering
2011-05-09 14:14 ` Keir Fraser
2011-03-30 18:04 ` [PATCH 3 of 3] xentrace: remove unneeded debug printk Olaf Hering
2011-04-01 11:18 ` George Dunlap
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