Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/2] xen: Switch to virtual mapped linear p2m list

2014-10-28 Thread Juergen Gross
On 10/28/2014 01:39 PM, David Vrabel wrote: On 28/10/14 12:07, Juergen Gross wrote: Okay, back to the original question: is the (up to) 64 MB virtual mapping of the p2m list on 32-bit pv domains a problem or not? I think up-to 64 MiB of vmalloc area is fine. The vmalloc space can be

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/2] xen: Switch to virtual mapped linear p2m list

2014-10-28 Thread Juergen Gross
On 10/28/2014 01:46 PM, Andrew Cooper wrote: On 28/10/14 12:44, David Vrabel wrote: On 28/10/14 12:42, Andrew Cooper wrote: On 28/10/14 12:39, David Vrabel wrote: On 28/10/14 12:07, Juergen Gross wrote: Okay, back to the original question: is the (up to) 64 MB virtual mapping of the p2m list

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/2] xen: Switch to virtual mapped linear p2m list

2014-10-28 Thread Andrew Cooper
On 28/10/14 12:44, David Vrabel wrote: > On 28/10/14 12:42, Andrew Cooper wrote: >> On 28/10/14 12:39, David Vrabel wrote: >>> On 28/10/14 12:07, Juergen Gross wrote: Okay, back to the original question: is the (up to) 64 MB virtual mapping of the p2m list on 32-bit pv domains a problem

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/2] xen: Switch to virtual mapped linear p2m list

2014-10-28 Thread David Vrabel
On 28/10/14 12:42, Andrew Cooper wrote: > On 28/10/14 12:39, David Vrabel wrote: >> On 28/10/14 12:07, Juergen Gross wrote: >>> Okay, back to the original question: is the (up to) 64 MB virtual >>> mapping of the p2m list on 32-bit pv domains a problem or not? >> I think up-to 64 MiB of vmalloc

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/2] xen: Switch to virtual mapped linear p2m list

2014-10-28 Thread Andrew Cooper
On 28/10/14 12:39, David Vrabel wrote: > On 28/10/14 12:07, Juergen Gross wrote: >> Okay, back to the original question: is the (up to) 64 MB virtual >> mapping of the p2m list on 32-bit pv domains a problem or not? > I think up-to 64 MiB of vmalloc area is fine. The vmalloc space can be >

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/2] xen: Switch to virtual mapped linear p2m list

2014-10-28 Thread David Vrabel
On 28/10/14 12:07, Juergen Gross wrote: > > Okay, back to the original question: is the (up to) 64 MB virtual > mapping of the p2m list on 32-bit pv domains a problem or not? I think up-to 64 MiB of vmalloc area is fine. The vmalloc space can be increased with a command line option in the

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/2] xen: Switch to virtual mapped linear p2m list

2014-10-28 Thread Juergen Gross
On 10/28/2014 12:53 PM, Andrew Cooper wrote: On 28/10/14 09:51, Ian Campbell wrote: On Tue, 2014-10-28 at 06:00 +0100, Juergen Gross wrote: On 10/27/2014 04:16 PM, David Vrabel wrote: On 27/10/14 14:52, Juergen Gross wrote: Paravirtualized kernels running on Xen use a three level tree for

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/2] xen: Switch to virtual mapped linear p2m list

2014-10-28 Thread Andrew Cooper
On 28/10/14 09:51, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Tue, 2014-10-28 at 06:00 +0100, Juergen Gross wrote: >> On 10/27/2014 04:16 PM, David Vrabel wrote: >>> On 27/10/14 14:52, Juergen Gross wrote: Paravirtualized kernels running on Xen use a three level tree for translation of guest specific

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/2] xen: Switch to virtual mapped linear p2m list

2014-10-28 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2014-10-28 at 06:00 +0100, Juergen Gross wrote: > On 10/27/2014 04:16 PM, David Vrabel wrote: > > On 27/10/14 14:52, Juergen Gross wrote: > >> Paravirtualized kernels running on Xen use a three level tree for > >> translation of guest specific physical addresses to machine global > >>

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/2] xen: Switch to virtual mapped linear p2m list

2014-10-28 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2014-10-28 at 06:00 +0100, Juergen Gross wrote: On 10/27/2014 04:16 PM, David Vrabel wrote: On 27/10/14 14:52, Juergen Gross wrote: Paravirtualized kernels running on Xen use a three level tree for translation of guest specific physical addresses to machine global addresses. This

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/2] xen: Switch to virtual mapped linear p2m list

2014-10-28 Thread Andrew Cooper
On 28/10/14 09:51, Ian Campbell wrote: On Tue, 2014-10-28 at 06:00 +0100, Juergen Gross wrote: On 10/27/2014 04:16 PM, David Vrabel wrote: On 27/10/14 14:52, Juergen Gross wrote: Paravirtualized kernels running on Xen use a three level tree for translation of guest specific physical addresses

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/2] xen: Switch to virtual mapped linear p2m list

2014-10-28 Thread Juergen Gross
On 10/28/2014 12:53 PM, Andrew Cooper wrote: On 28/10/14 09:51, Ian Campbell wrote: On Tue, 2014-10-28 at 06:00 +0100, Juergen Gross wrote: On 10/27/2014 04:16 PM, David Vrabel wrote: On 27/10/14 14:52, Juergen Gross wrote: Paravirtualized kernels running on Xen use a three level tree for

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/2] xen: Switch to virtual mapped linear p2m list

2014-10-28 Thread David Vrabel
On 28/10/14 12:07, Juergen Gross wrote: Okay, back to the original question: is the (up to) 64 MB virtual mapping of the p2m list on 32-bit pv domains a problem or not? I think up-to 64 MiB of vmalloc area is fine. The vmalloc space can be increased with a command line option in the unlikely

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/2] xen: Switch to virtual mapped linear p2m list

2014-10-28 Thread Andrew Cooper
On 28/10/14 12:39, David Vrabel wrote: On 28/10/14 12:07, Juergen Gross wrote: Okay, back to the original question: is the (up to) 64 MB virtual mapping of the p2m list on 32-bit pv domains a problem or not? I think up-to 64 MiB of vmalloc area is fine. The vmalloc space can be increased

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/2] xen: Switch to virtual mapped linear p2m list

2014-10-28 Thread David Vrabel
On 28/10/14 12:42, Andrew Cooper wrote: On 28/10/14 12:39, David Vrabel wrote: On 28/10/14 12:07, Juergen Gross wrote: Okay, back to the original question: is the (up to) 64 MB virtual mapping of the p2m list on 32-bit pv domains a problem or not? I think up-to 64 MiB of vmalloc area is fine.

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/2] xen: Switch to virtual mapped linear p2m list

2014-10-28 Thread Andrew Cooper
On 28/10/14 12:44, David Vrabel wrote: On 28/10/14 12:42, Andrew Cooper wrote: On 28/10/14 12:39, David Vrabel wrote: On 28/10/14 12:07, Juergen Gross wrote: Okay, back to the original question: is the (up to) 64 MB virtual mapping of the p2m list on 32-bit pv domains a problem or not? I

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/2] xen: Switch to virtual mapped linear p2m list

2014-10-28 Thread Juergen Gross
On 10/28/2014 01:46 PM, Andrew Cooper wrote: On 28/10/14 12:44, David Vrabel wrote: On 28/10/14 12:42, Andrew Cooper wrote: On 28/10/14 12:39, David Vrabel wrote: On 28/10/14 12:07, Juergen Gross wrote: Okay, back to the original question: is the (up to) 64 MB virtual mapping of the p2m list

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/2] xen: Switch to virtual mapped linear p2m list

2014-10-28 Thread Juergen Gross
On 10/28/2014 01:39 PM, David Vrabel wrote: On 28/10/14 12:07, Juergen Gross wrote: Okay, back to the original question: is the (up to) 64 MB virtual mapping of the p2m list on 32-bit pv domains a problem or not? I think up-to 64 MiB of vmalloc area is fine. The vmalloc space can be

Re: [PATCH 0/2] xen: Switch to virtual mapped linear p2m list

2014-10-27 Thread Juergen Gross
On 10/27/2014 04:16 PM, David Vrabel wrote: On 27/10/14 14:52, Juergen Gross wrote: Paravirtualized kernels running on Xen use a three level tree for translation of guest specific physical addresses to machine global addresses. This p2m tree is used for construction of page table entries, so

Re: [PATCH 0/2] xen: Switch to virtual mapped linear p2m list

2014-10-27 Thread David Vrabel
On 27/10/14 14:52, Juergen Gross wrote: > Paravirtualized kernels running on Xen use a three level tree for > translation of guest specific physical addresses to machine global > addresses. This p2m tree is used for construction of page table > entries, so the p2m tree walk is performance

[PATCH 0/2] xen: Switch to virtual mapped linear p2m list

2014-10-27 Thread Juergen Gross
Paravirtualized kernels running on Xen use a three level tree for translation of guest specific physical addresses to machine global addresses. This p2m tree is used for construction of page table entries, so the p2m tree walk is performance critical. By using a linear virtual mapped p2m list

[PATCH 0/2] xen: Switch to virtual mapped linear p2m list

2014-10-27 Thread Juergen Gross
Paravirtualized kernels running on Xen use a three level tree for translation of guest specific physical addresses to machine global addresses. This p2m tree is used for construction of page table entries, so the p2m tree walk is performance critical. By using a linear virtual mapped p2m list

Re: [PATCH 0/2] xen: Switch to virtual mapped linear p2m list

2014-10-27 Thread David Vrabel
On 27/10/14 14:52, Juergen Gross wrote: Paravirtualized kernels running on Xen use a three level tree for translation of guest specific physical addresses to machine global addresses. This p2m tree is used for construction of page table entries, so the p2m tree walk is performance critical.

Re: [PATCH 0/2] xen: Switch to virtual mapped linear p2m list

2014-10-27 Thread Juergen Gross
On 10/27/2014 04:16 PM, David Vrabel wrote: On 27/10/14 14:52, Juergen Gross wrote: Paravirtualized kernels running on Xen use a three level tree for translation of guest specific physical addresses to machine global addresses. This p2m tree is used for construction of page table entries, so