From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen: Pack some hvmop memory structures better
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 17:24:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D4C2834.9070204@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dffa1a0edc8c6e2aa879.1296833298@elijah>
On 02/04/2011 04:28 PM, George Dunlap wrote:
> Some of the hvmop memory structures have a shocking amount of unnecesssary
> padding in them. Elements which can have only 3 values are given 64 bits of
> memory, and then aligned (so that there is padding behind them).
>
> This patch resizes and reorganizes in the following way, (hopefully) without
> introducing any differences between the layout for 32- and 64-bit.
Am I missing something glaring, or this is breaking the ABI between
hypervisor and kernels?
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-04 16:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-04 15:28 [PATCH] xen: Pack some hvmop memory structures better George Dunlap
2011-02-04 16:24 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2011-02-04 16:30 ` Tim Deegan
[not found] ` <AANLkTinDb6cNHGX9rZ8+gxQ8BwQN3J-k8MhYyKXjjkzq@mail.gmail.com>
2011-02-07 9:22 ` Tim Deegan
2011-02-07 9:22 ` Jan Beulich
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