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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH]: Allow tools to map arbitrarily large mach

To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH]: Allow tools to map arbitrarily large machphys_mfn_list on 32bit dom0
From: Gianni Tedesco <gianni.tedesco@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 17:11:36 +0000
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On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 16:58 +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> 
> > It's 1GB which is enough to cover 1TB of host memory, which AFAIK is
> all
> > we support these days. It certainly buys us time compared with
> currently
> > failing at 160GB.
> 
> 1Tb of *contiguous* host memory. And that's certainly not the limit
> Xen has been run on, and Xen itself is set up to handle 5Tb. Which
> I'm seeing to get exceeded on experimental(?) systems...
> 
> And while I agree that failing at 1Tb is better than failing at 160Gb,
> I favor fixing this once and completely over doing a little bit of
> papering over the problem now just to require debugging the same
> issue again later.

Maybe a comment or a printk() would be advisable here then in the mean
time?

Gianni


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