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charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-purgate-ID: tlsNG-720697/1776692306-8A4C5161-DC114E90/0/0 X-purgate-type: clean X-purgate-size: 802 On 20.04.2026 14:49, Teddy Astie wrote: > Is there anything that would prevent the use of alloc_domheap_pages() to > allocate a configuous set of pages at once; and vmap_contig() to map it > in one go. > That also prevents the ioreq pages from being scattered around. > > We would lose a few pages by aligning the size into a order, but that > probably better than the alternatives. > > That way, we would only have to keep the base gfn (or first page_info) > and size of the allocation, and don't have to use a array of mfn nor > have to reverse the vmap to track it. Well, higher-order allocations can easily fail when there's ample memory available. Hence why a goal ought to be to avoid such allocations at runtime. That's why we (now) have vmalloc() and xvmalloc(). Jan