Re: [Xen-devel] [xtf test] 100874: all pass - PUSHED

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 19.09.16 at 12:42, <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 10:37:30AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
>> The log says:
>>    PV superpage support not detected
>> 
>> I assume this is not a missing hardware feature, but rather a missing
>> build option or something ?
>> 
>> https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Project_Release_Features suggests
>> that superpages are "supported" so it would be good to have this test
>> working.
>> 
> 
> PV superpage is different from hvm superpage. Also that wiki page could
> be referring to hv support, I'm not sure.

I guess the respective command line option ("allowsuperpage") was
not given?

> As far as I can tell, PV superpage is a feature that nobody uses except
> for Oracle (?).

And even they half proposed removing the support, but that
proposal was never really brought into full life. Konrad?

Jan


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