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From: Corneliu ZUZU <czuzu@bitdefender.com>
Subject: Re: X86 arch_domain ginormous,
 sizeof(struct domain) already == PAGE_SIZE
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 23:45:59 +0200
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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.