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From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andres@lagarcavilla.org>
Cc: andres@gridcentric.ca, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com,
	tim@xen.org, keir.xen@gmail.com, adin@gridcentric.ca
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1 of 4] Improve ring management for memory events
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:57:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111123185728.GA27583@aepfle.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d78fe2c45f3dec05bb9d525ea3f06d6d.squirrel@webmail.lagarcavilla.org>

On Wed, Nov 23, Andres Lagar-Cavilla wrote:

> Well, we can tone down printk's to be debug level. I don't think they're
> unnecessary if they're made an optional debug tool.

There is nothing to debug here, since the callers have to retry anyway.

> Question: I have one vcpu, how do I fill up the ring quickly? (outside of
> foreign mappings)

Have a balloon driver in the guest and balloon down more than
64*PAGE_SIZE. This is the default at least in my setup where the kernel
driver releases some memory right away (I havent checked where this is
actually configured).

Olaf

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-23 18:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-14 21:58 [PATCH 0 of 4] Mem event handling improvements Andres Lagar-Cavilla
2011-11-14 21:58 ` [PATCH 1 of 4] Improve ring management for memory events Andres Lagar-Cavilla
2011-11-23 18:35   ` Olaf Hering
2011-11-23 18:52     ` Andres Lagar-Cavilla
2011-11-23 18:57       ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2011-11-24 18:54         ` Andres Lagar-Cavilla
2011-11-24 19:23           ` Olaf Hering
2011-11-24 19:35             ` Andres Lagar-Cavilla
2011-11-14 21:58 ` [PATCH 2 of 4] Create a generic callback mechanism for Xen-bound event channels Andres Lagar-Cavilla
2011-11-14 21:58 ` [PATCH 3 of 4] Make the prototype of p2m_mem_access_resume consistent Andres Lagar-Cavilla
2011-11-14 21:58 ` [PATCH 4 of 4] Allow memevent responses to be signaled via the event channel Andres Lagar-Cavilla

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