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From: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
	tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org,
	macro@linux-mips.org, kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com,
	eike-kernel@sf-tec.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86: ioremap: fix wrong physical address handling
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 15:10:07 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100709061007.GD20370@verge.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C36B494.6060801@goop.org>

On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 10:33:08PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> On 07/08/2010 09:24 PM, Simon Horman wrote:
> >> I think it would be a pretty large change.  From the Xen's perspective,
> >> any machine even approximately approaching the 2^44 limit will be
> >> capable of running Xen guests in hvm mode, so PV isn't really a concern.
> >>     
> > Hi Jeremy,
> >
> > Is the implication of that statement that HVM is preferred where
> > supported by HW?
> >   
> 
> I wouldn't go that far; the PV vs HVM choice is pretty complex, and
> depends on what your workload is and what hardware you have available. 
> All I meant was what I said: that if you're running on a machine with a
> large amount of memory, then you should run your 32-bit domains as HVM
> rather than PV.  Though Xen could easily keep domains limited to memory
> that they can actually use (it already does this, in fact).

Hi Jeremy,

thanks for the clarification.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-09  6:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-17  1:28 [BUG][PATCH 0/2 (v.2)] x86: ioremap() problem in X86_32 PAE Kenji Kaneshige
2010-06-17  1:30 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86: ioremap: fix wrong physical address handling Kenji Kaneshige
2010-06-17  2:50   ` Matthew Wilcox
2010-06-17  4:22     ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-06-17  4:55       ` Kenji Kaneshige
2010-06-17  6:03         ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-06-17  6:21           ` Kenji Kaneshige
2010-06-17  9:35           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-06-17  9:38             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-06-17 13:46             ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-06-18  0:32               ` Kenji Kaneshige
2010-06-18  0:22             ` Kenji Kaneshige
2010-07-09  4:24             ` Simon Horman
2010-07-09  5:33               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-07-09  6:10                 ` Simon Horman [this message]
2010-06-17  6:28     ` Kenji Kaneshige
2010-07-09 18:31   ` [tip:x86/mm] x86, pae: Fix handling of large physical addresses in ioremap tip-bot for Kenji Kaneshige
2010-07-09 18:43     ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-06-17  1:31 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86: ioremap: fix normal ram range check Kenji Kaneshige
2010-07-09 18:31   ` [tip:x86/mm] x86, ioremap: Fix " tip-bot for Kenji Kaneshige
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-06-18  3:21 [BUG][PATCH 0/2 (v.3)] x86: ioremap() problem in X86_32 PAE Kenji Kaneshige
2010-06-18  3:22 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86: ioremap: fix wrong physical address handling Kenji Kaneshige
2010-06-18 11:07   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-06-21  1:40     ` Kenji Kaneshige

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