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RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] [Question] Which feature of Xen-IPF will reserve mu

To: "Isaku Yamahata" <yamahata@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] [Question] Which feature of Xen-IPF will reserve much memory of a VTI guest?
From: "Zhang, Jingke" <jingke.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:52:49 +0800
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Thread-topic: [Xen-ia64-devel] [Question] Which feature of Xen-IPF will reserve much memory of a VTI guest?
Isaku Yamahata wrote:
> Hi Jingke.
> 
> Although I haven't digged into it and I'm not sure, I suppose
> that Linux/ia64 may round up/down usable memory when parsing efi
> memory map.
> Presumably looking into /proc/iomem may help to track down
> the issue.
> 
> thanks,

I will see into that file. Greatly appreciate your help!  :)

> 
> On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 01:36:19PM +0800, Zhang, Jingke wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>     When we check the "/proc/meminfo" in the VTI, we found the total
>> memory is about 100MB less than what we config. For x86_64 and KVM
>> side, they are different. So, I want to ask a question: Is there any
>> feature reserving much memory of VTI? Thank you very much!
>> 
>>     BTW, by command "dmesg | grep reserve":
>>     For RHEL4u4 VTI ------ Memory: 942976k/1018784k available (5714k
>> code, 87712k reserved, 2279k data, 384k init)
>>     For RHEL4u4 x86_64 VMX ------ Memory: 1024844k/1048544k available
>> (2105k kernel code, 0k reserved, 1297k data, 196k init)
>>     For RHEL4u4 x86_64 KVM ------ Memory: 1024772k/1048512k available
>> (2105k kernel code, 0k reserved, 1297k data, 196k init)
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Zhang Jingke
>> 
>> 
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Thanks,
Zhang Jingke

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