From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Chris Lalancette <clalance@redhat.com>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Expand Xen blkfront for > 16 xvd
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:16:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48A9AE88.3060507@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48A400EC.9040407@redhat.com>
Chris Lalancette wrote:
> Jeremy,
> Until recently, the maximum number of xvd block devices you could attach to
> a Xen domU was 16. This limitation turned out to be problematic for some users,
> so it was expanded to handle a much larger number of disks. However, this
> requires a couple of changes in the way that blkfront scans for disks. This
> functionality is already present in the Xen linux-2.6.18-xen.hg tree; the
> attached patch adds this functionality to the mainline xen-blkfront
> implementation.
I haven't tested this yet. You have tested it OK with some pvops
kernel? If so, send it to Jens Axboe with my ack.
> I successfully tested it on a 2.6.25 tree. I build tested it
> on 2.6.27-rc3, but couldn't get that tree to boot due to some other bug.
What other bug?
J
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-18 17:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-14 9:54 [PATCH]: Expand Xen blkfront for > 16 xvd Chris Lalancette
2008-08-18 17:16 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2008-08-19 6:52 ` [Xen-devel] " Chris Lalancette
2008-08-19 6:59 Chris Lalancette
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