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From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
	Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
	xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 3/3] tools/libxc: use superpages during restore of HVM guest
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 14:02:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170906140241.1a09ccb1.olaf@aepfle.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170906113410.2upxmdambiwzvk5g@citrix.com>


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Am Wed, 6 Sep 2017 12:34:10 +0100
schrieb Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>:

> > +struct x86_hvm_sp {  
> Forgot to ask: what does sp stand for?

superpage. I will check if there is room to expand this string.

> > + * Try to allocate superpages.
> > + * This works without memory map only if the pfns arrive in incremental order.
> > + */  
> I have said several times, one way or another, I don't want to make
> assumption on the stream of pfns. So I'm afraid I can't ack a patch like
> this.

It will work with any order, I think. Just with incremental order the superpages will not be split once they are allocated.

Thanks for the review. I will send another series shortly.

Olaf

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-09-06 12:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-01 16:08 [PATCH v9 0/3] tools/libxc: use superpages Olaf Hering
2017-09-01 16:08 ` [PATCH v9 1/3] tools/libxc: move SUPERPAGE macros to common header Olaf Hering
2017-09-01 16:08 ` [PATCH v9 2/3] tools/libxc: add API for bitmap access for restore Olaf Hering
2017-09-06 11:57   ` Andrew Cooper
2017-09-06 12:15     ` Olaf Hering
2017-09-01 16:08 ` [PATCH v9 3/3] tools/libxc: use superpages during restore of HVM guest Olaf Hering
2017-09-06 11:34   ` Wei Liu
2017-09-06 11:39     ` Andrew Cooper
2017-09-08 11:45       ` Olaf Hering
2017-10-11 14:15         ` Olaf Hering
2017-10-11 15:09           ` Olaf Hering
2017-09-06 12:02     ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2017-09-06 12:13   ` Andrew Cooper
2017-09-06 12:17     ` Olaf Hering
2017-09-06 12:23       ` Andrew Cooper
2017-09-06 12:25         ` Olaf Hering
2017-09-06 12:24     ` Olaf Hering

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