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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH][3/4] Enable 1GB for Xen HVM host page

To: Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH][3/4] Enable 1GB for Xen HVM host page
From: George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:30:47 +0000
Cc: "Xu, Dongxiao" <dongxiao.xu@xxxxxxxxx>, "Huang2, Wei" <Wei.Huang2@xxxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 16:37 +0000 on 23 Feb (1266943030), Huang2, Wei wrote:
>> I was hoping that someone else would pick up the 1GB PoD task. :P I
>> can try to implement this feature if deemed necessary.
>
> I think it will be OK - PoD is only useful with balloon drivers, which
> currently don't even maintain 2MB superpages, so it's probably not worth
> engineering up 1GB PoD.

Agreed.  As long as everything still functions properly when PoD is
turned on, not having 1G PoD entries shouldn't be a big priority.
 -George

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