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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com,
	jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86-64: improve e820_search_gap()
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:37:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49BA99D0.1040308@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49B8F5C4.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>

Jan Beulich wrote:
> Blindly putting the gap close after max_pfn might be fine for native
> (though even there I'm uncertain regarding memory hotplug), but will
> certainly present a problem on Xen. And properly searching for a gap
> above 4Gb shouldn't hurt native.
>   

What Xen-related issue are you thinking of?

When booting dom0 I reashape the guest memory to match the host E820 
map, and for domU my plan is to leave a hole at 3-4GB for pci 
passthrough resources.

    J

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-03-13 17:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-12 10:45 [PATCH] x86-64: improve e820_search_gap() Jan Beulich
2009-03-12 11:02 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-12 11:31   ` Jan Beulich
2009-03-13 17:37 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-05-06 12:07 Jan Beulich
2009-05-08  4:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-05-08  6:40   ` Jan Beulich
2009-05-08 16:52     ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-05-08 19:22     ` Andi Kleen
2009-05-08 20:15       ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-05-08 20:53         ` Andi Kleen
2009-05-08 20:52           ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-05-09 10:00             ` Andi Kleen
2009-05-10  6:43               ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-05-10 15:18                 ` Andi Kleen
2009-05-10 17:56                   ` H. Peter Anvin

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