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From: Mick Jordan <Mick.Jordan@sun.com>
Subject: Re: Design question for PV superpage support
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:43:02 -0800
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On 03/02/09 05:54, Dave McCracken wrote:
> The solution I am working on for how to support Linux hugepages (Xen 
> superpages) involves creating domains made up entirely of superpages.  I can 
> create a working domain with superpages and am in the process of supporting 
> it in save/restore.
>
>   
This wouldn't work too well for me in the case of thread stacks because 
we need to map out parts of the stack and, although we want large 
virtual stacks, we don't want do dedicate that much physical memory. Is 
it really difficult to support mixed pages sizes in the general case, 
e.g., save/restore etc.?

Mick