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On 11/03/16 16:47, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wednesday, March 9, 2016, Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com
> <mailto:daniel.kiper@oracle.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 03:47:17PM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote:
>     > Hi Vladimir,
>     >
>     > would it be possible to get "grub-xen: support booting huge
>     pv-domains"
>     > (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2016-03/msg00071.html)
>     > patch series into grub2 2.02?
> 
>     Andrei, Vladimir, what do you think about that?
> 
> Can you help us estimate the impact of those changes? What is the
> current limit and what is the new limit? How common are the
> configurations between old and new limit? 

The old limit was 512GB memory size for a pv-domain.

The new limit is, hmm, much much larger. Don't know. More than any
hardware today is capable to handle.

We at SUSE already have customers asking for domains in the TB range.


Juergen