Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 12:05 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>
>> Rusty Russell wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 14:43 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>>>
32 bits of page numbers give 44 bits of physical address on x86. That's
16TB per guest. Admittedly it's
On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 12:05 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Rusty Russell wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 14:43 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> >> 32 bits of page numbers give 44 bits of physical address on x86. That's
> >> 16TB per guest. Admittedly it's smaller on a VAX.
> >
> > I like to feel that I
Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 14:43 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>
>> Rusty Russell wrote:
>>
>>> These helper routines supply most of the virtqueue_ops for hypervisors
>>> which want to use a ring for virtio. Unlike the previous lguest
>>> implementation:
>>>
>>> 3) The page nu
On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 14:43 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Rusty Russell wrote:
> > These helper routines supply most of the virtqueue_ops for hypervisors
> > which want to use a ring for virtio. Unlike the previous lguest
> > implementation:
> >
> > 3) The page numbers are always 64 bit (PAE anyone?)
Rusty Russell wrote:
> These helper routines supply most of the virtqueue_ops for hypervisors
> which want to use a ring for virtio. Unlike the previous lguest
> implementation:
>
> 3) The page numbers are always 64 bit (PAE anyone?)
>
32 bits of page numbers give 44 bits of physical address o
These helper routines supply most of the virtqueue_ops for hypervisors
which want to use a ring for virtio. Unlike the previous lguest
implementation:
1) The rings are variable sized (2^n-1 elements).
2) They have an unfortunate limit of 65535 bytes per sg element.
3) The page numbers are always
