From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
To: Julien Grall <julien@xen.org>
Cc: "'Stefano Stabellini'" <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
tamas.lengyel@intel.com, "'Wei Liu'" <wl@xen.org>,
paul@xen.org, "'Andrew Cooper'" <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
"'Michał Leszczyński'" <michal.leszczynski@cert.pl>,
"'Ian Jackson'" <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
"'George Dunlap'" <george.dunlap@citrix.com>,
luwei.kang@intel.com, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 06/10] memory: batch processing in acquire_resource()
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2020 14:50:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4fbc0a79-052e-0596-ca31-ec4902dddc85@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cec1bfc7-694c-ae40-3fcd-ed0829295893@xen.org>
On 03.07.2020 13:36, Julien Grall wrote:
> On 03/07/2020 12:22, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> On 03.07.2020 13:17, Julien Grall wrote:
>>> In the current implementation, we tell the guest how many frames it can
>>> request in a batch. This number may be much smaller that the maximum
>>> number of frames of the type.
>>>
>>> Furthermore this value is not tie to the xmar.type. Therefore, it is
>>> valid for a guest to call this hypercall only once at boot to figure out
>>> the maximum batch.
>>>
>>> So while the change you suggest looks a good idea, I don't think it is
>>> possible to do that with the current hypercall.
>>
>> Doesn't the limit simply change to UINT_MAX >> MEMOP_EXTENT_SHIFT,
>> which then is what should be reported?
>
> Hmmm... Can you remind me whether we support migration to an older release?
I'm pretty sure we say "N -> N+1 only" somewhere, but this "somewhere"
clearly isn't SUPPORT.md.
Jan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-03 12:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-30 12:33 [PATCH v4 00/10] Implement support for external IPT monitoring Michał Leszczyński
2020-06-30 12:33 ` [PATCH v4 01/10] x86/vmx: add Intel PT MSR definitions Michał Leszczyński
2020-06-30 16:23 ` Jan Beulich
2020-06-30 17:37 ` Andrew Cooper
2020-06-30 18:03 ` Tamas K Lengyel
2020-06-30 18:27 ` Michał Leszczyński
2020-07-01 17:52 ` Andrew Cooper
2020-06-30 12:33 ` [PATCH v4 02/10] x86/vmx: add IPT cpu feature Michał Leszczyński
2020-07-01 9:49 ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-07-01 15:12 ` Julien Grall
2020-07-01 16:06 ` Andrew Cooper
2020-07-01 16:17 ` Julien Grall
2020-07-01 16:18 ` Julien Grall
2020-07-01 17:26 ` Andrew Cooper
2020-07-01 18:02 ` Julien Grall
2020-07-01 18:06 ` Andrew Cooper
2020-07-01 18:09 ` Julien Grall
2020-07-02 8:29 ` Jan Beulich
2020-07-02 8:42 ` Julien Grall
2020-07-02 8:50 ` Jan Beulich
2020-07-02 8:54 ` Julien Grall
2020-07-02 9:18 ` Jan Beulich
2020-07-02 9:57 ` Julien Grall
2020-07-02 13:30 ` Jan Beulich
2020-07-02 14:14 ` Julien Grall
2020-07-02 14:17 ` Jan Beulich
2020-07-02 14:31 ` Julien Grall
2020-07-02 20:28 ` Michał Leszczyński
2020-07-03 7:58 ` Julien Grall
2020-07-04 19:16 ` Michał Leszczyński
2020-07-01 21:42 ` Andrew Cooper
2020-07-02 8:10 ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-07-02 8:34 ` Jan Beulich
2020-07-02 20:29 ` Michał Leszczyński
2020-06-30 12:33 ` [PATCH v4 03/10] tools/libxl: add vmtrace_pt_size parameter Michał Leszczyński
2020-07-01 10:05 ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-07-02 9:00 ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-07-02 16:23 ` Michał Leszczyński
2020-07-03 9:44 ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-07-03 9:56 ` Jan Beulich
2020-07-03 10:11 ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-07-04 17:23 ` Julien Grall
2020-07-06 8:46 ` Jan Beulich
2020-07-07 8:44 ` Julien Grall
2020-07-07 9:10 ` Jan Beulich
2020-07-07 9:16 ` Julien Grall
2020-07-07 11:17 ` Michał Leszczyński
2020-07-07 11:21 ` Jan Beulich
2020-07-07 11:35 ` Michał Leszczyński
2020-07-02 10:24 ` Anthony PERARD
2020-07-04 17:48 ` Julien Grall
2020-06-30 12:33 ` [PATCH v4 04/10] x86/vmx: implement processor tracing for VMX Michał Leszczyński
2020-07-01 10:30 ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-06-30 12:33 ` [PATCH v4 05/10] common/domain: allocate vmtrace_pt_buffer Michał Leszczyński
2020-07-01 10:38 ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-07-01 15:35 ` Julien Grall
2020-06-30 12:33 ` [PATCH v4 06/10] memory: batch processing in acquire_resource() Michał Leszczyński
2020-07-01 10:46 ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-07-03 10:35 ` Julien Grall
2020-07-03 10:52 ` Paul Durrant
2020-07-03 11:17 ` Julien Grall
2020-07-03 11:22 ` Jan Beulich
2020-07-03 11:36 ` Julien Grall
2020-07-03 12:50 ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2020-07-03 11:40 ` Paul Durrant
2020-06-30 12:33 ` [PATCH v4 07/10] x86/mm: add vmtrace_buf resource type Michał Leszczyński
2020-07-01 10:52 ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-06-30 12:33 ` [PATCH v4 08/10] x86/domctl: add XEN_DOMCTL_vmtrace_op Michał Leszczyński
2020-07-01 11:00 ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-06-30 12:33 ` [PATCH v4 09/10] tools/libxc: add xc_vmtrace_* functions Michał Leszczyński
2020-07-21 10:52 ` Wei Liu
2020-06-30 12:33 ` [PATCH v4 10/10] tools/proctrace: add proctrace tool Michał Leszczyński
2020-07-02 15:10 ` Andrew Cooper
2020-07-21 10:52 ` Wei Liu
2020-06-30 12:48 ` [PATCH v4 00/10] Implement support for external IPT monitoring Hubert Jasudowicz
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