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From: David Vrabel <dvrabel@cantab.net>
To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, david.vrabel@citrix.com,
	JBeulich@suse.com, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 6/8] xen/setup: Work properly with 'dom0_mem=X' or with not dom0_mem.
Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 12:54:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FA27212.9060403@cantab.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1334596539-18172-7-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

On 16/04/12 18:15, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> We ignored the X value and ended up populating up to
> max(MAX_DOMAIN_PAGES, last E820_RAM entry).
> 
> This fixes it by figuring out how many RAM nr_pages the
> hypervisor wanted to provide to us and cap the populate
> hypercalls up to that.

I don't think we should change the behavior again, particularly as the
dom0_mem documentation doesn't describe this proposed behaviour.

I would drop this patch.

David

  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-03 11:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-16 17:15 [PATCH] auto balloon initial domain and fix dom0_mem=X inconsistencies (v5) Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-04-16 17:15 ` [PATCH 1/8] xen/p2m: Move code around to allow for better re-usage Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-04-16 17:15 ` [PATCH 2/8] xen/p2m: Allow alloc_p2m_middle to call reserve_brk depending on argument Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-04-16 17:15 ` [PATCH 3/8] xen/p2m: Collapse early_alloc_p2m_middle redundant checks Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-04-16 17:15 ` [PATCH 4/8] xen/p2m: An early bootup variant of set_phys_to_machine Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-04-16 17:15 ` [PATCH 6/8] xen/setup: Work properly with 'dom0_mem=X' or with not dom0_mem Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-05-03 11:54   ` David Vrabel [this message]
2012-04-16 17:15 ` [PATCH 7/8] xen/setup: Populate freed MFNs from non-RAM E820 entries and gaps to E820 RAM Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-05-03 11:56   ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2012-04-16 17:15 ` [PATCH 8/8] xen/setup: Combine the two hypercall functions - since they are quite similar Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-05-03 11:58   ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2012-05-03 15:37     ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-05-01 16:37 ` [PATCH] auto balloon initial domain and fix dom0_mem=X inconsistencies (v5) Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-05-02  9:05   ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-03 11:48   ` David Vrabel
2012-05-03 15:15     ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2012-05-03 16:27       ` David Vrabel
2012-05-07 18:48         ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-05-08 18:12           ` David Vrabel
2012-05-08 18:24             ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk

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