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Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.0.1 "xc_map_foreign_batch: mmap failed: Cannot a

To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.0.1 "xc_map_foreign_batch: mmap failed: Cannot allocate memory"
From: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 17:48:06 +0000
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On Wed, 5 Jan 2011, Jan Beulich wrote:
> But this means it can have very close to the total amount of
> memory the guest has in flight on its own. Clearly this should
> be throttled based on available memory (just consider you have
> multiple such I/O hungry guests).

This is true in theory, but Qemu emulates a PIIX3 chipset that only has
two dma engines so I don't believe is possible to have more than 2 dma
requests in flight.
However I am not sure what is the maximum size for a single dma request.

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