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From: Corneliu ZUZU <czuzu@bitdefender.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
	Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>,
	xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: X86 arch_domain ginormous, sizeof(struct domain) already == PAGE_SIZE
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 23:45:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56ABDD97.3060009@bitdefender.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56ABAAF302000078000CC864@prv-mh.provo.novell.com>

On 1/29/2016 7:09 PM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 29.01.16 at 17:24, <czuzu@bitdefender.com> wrote:
>> One could shrink the domain structure by transforming some of its fields
>> to pointers, e.g. I could transform the pl_time field into a pointer and
>> dynamically allocate its data when domain_create is called.
> Sounds like a reasonable measure. I wasn't aware we're exactly on
> the boundary right now.
>
> Jan

So then would it be ok to go w/ this?
@Andrew you mentioned something about "pulling an optional structure out 
into an explicit allocation", did you have something specific in mind? 
Would it be ok to do that for pl_time?

Thanks,
Corneliu.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-01-29 21:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-29 16:24 X86 arch_domain ginormous, sizeof(struct domain) already == PAGE_SIZE Corneliu ZUZU
2016-01-29 16:47 ` Lengyel, Tamas
2016-01-29 21:32   ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-01-31  0:22     ` Lengyel, Tamas
2016-01-29 17:09 ` Jan Beulich
2016-01-29 17:12   ` Andrew Cooper
2016-01-29 21:45   ` Corneliu ZUZU [this message]

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