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From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com>
To: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>,
	"mukesh.rathor@oracle.com" <mukesh.rathor@oracle.com>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: increase evtchn limits
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 12:09:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BF685F802000078000037C5@vpn.id2.novell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C81C10EF.14D8A%keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>

>>> On 21.05.10 at 11:29, Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
> On 21/05/2010 10:25, "Keir Fraser" <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
> 
>>> There are 5 event channels per CPU (timer, reschedule IPI, SMP call function
>>> IPI, SMP call function single IPI, and spinlock wakeup IPI).
> 
> 
> It would be very easy to collapse the four IPIs onto one event channel plus
> a bitmask of IPI reasons. Then that would be a much more economical two
> event channels per CPU. And the change is a hell of a lot easier to
> implement than extensible event channels. I bet it could be knocked together
> in an hour.

Indeed, it didn't occur to me to do it that way, but this sounds pretty
strait forward to implement.

Thanks, Jan

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-21 11:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-21  8:14 increase evtchn limits Jan Beulich
2010-05-21  9:25 ` Keir Fraser
2010-05-21  9:29   ` Keir Fraser
2010-05-21 11:09     ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2010-05-21 10:52   ` Jan Beulich
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-05-21  3:41 Mukesh Rathor
2010-05-21  5:07 ` Zhigang Wang
2010-05-21  7:12   ` Keir Fraser
2010-05-21 18:52     ` Mukesh Rathor
2010-05-21 20:15       ` Keir Fraser
2010-05-21  7:01 ` Keir Fraser

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