From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>,
xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] hvmloader: limit CPUs exposed to guests
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 10:40:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <534ad74b-bfd6-b252-428d-196e6533e2cf@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5762901802000078000F597A@prv-mh.provo.novell.com>
On 16/06/16 10:40, Jan Beulich wrote:
> Various Linux versions allocate (partial) per-CPU data for all of them,
> as there is no indication in MADT whether they're hotpluggable. That's
> a little wasteful in terms of resource consumption especially for
> - guests with not overly much memory assigned,
> - 32-bit guests not having overly much address space available.
> Therefore limit what we put into MADT to the "maxvcpus" value, and make
> sure AML doesn't touch memory addresses corresponding to CPUs beyond
> that value (we can't reasonably make the respective processor objects
> disappear).
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
I don't feel that I know AML well enough to review, but the C looks ok
and this seems like a sensible change.
Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-16 9:33 [PATCH 0/2] x86: hvmloader improvements Jan Beulich
2016-06-16 9:40 ` [PATCH 1/2] hvmloader: limit CPUs exposed to guests Jan Beulich
2016-06-16 15:09 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-06-16 15:25 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-16 15:37 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-06-16 16:04 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-16 16:38 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-06-17 9:40 ` Andrew Cooper [this message]
2016-06-16 9:40 ` [PATCH 2/2] hvmloader: don't hard-code IO-APIC parameters Jan Beulich
2016-06-16 16:49 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-06-17 6:00 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-17 11:51 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-06-17 14:26 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-17 10:05 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-06-17 10:23 ` Jan Beulich
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