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From: Rob Gardner <rob.gardner@hp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xenmon: remove magic number "31" (the idle
	domain)
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 10:22:25 -0600
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Keir Fraser wrote:
>> Therefore, xenmon supports only up to 32 domains.
>
> That's poor, since it in fact only really supports the first 31 
> domains created on a system (domain ids don't necessarily quickly get 
> reused; and 32nd domid is used as sentinel to indicate idle). It 
> shouldn't be hard to use a data structure more complicated than 
> (presumably) a small array indexed by domid. 

I know about this problem. I've got a fix for it I prepared some time 
ago but never got around to submitting. I'll integrate it with the 
latest source and get it sent out this week.

Rob