Re: [Xen-devel] Why reserve maxmem on restore on ia64?

[Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxx>]

Because noone has bothered to merge with the x86 restore code, or otherwise
implement the more sensible allocation strategy.

 -- Keir

On 14/10/2010 13:21, "Miroslav Rezanina" <mrezanin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> while checking the code I found out that when we restore guest on ia64
> machine, we reserve up to maxmem pages and than free unused pages. As I'm not
> familiar with ia64 platform, I'd like to ask what's the reason for such a
> behavior? This prevent restoring guest on machine where is not enough memory
> available to alocate maxmem but there's enough memory for alocating memory.
> 
> Thanks for answer,
> Mirek



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