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 smaller on a VAX.
I like to feel that I make these mistakes to ensure others are paying
attention. However, it does mean that I can just put an address in
there and increase the length field to 32 bits. Much rejoicing.
Why are we sending page numbers anyway? See below.
Perhaps I was unclear. I already changed to a 64-bit address. I
haven't send out another set of patches because I'm changing to Arnd's
explicit virtio bus too. Will send out a new set tomorrow at this rate.
It does say so quite explicitly in the quoted text. Sorry.
Where one of the flags is VRING_DESC_INDIRECT, which means that the
memory within (address, length) is a bunch of descriptors instead of raw
data.
If that's all we wanted, it's fairly easy to do as a future extension
even if we didn't change it today. My concern was the allocation and
management of those sg pages; hence my desire for a patch 8)
Won't kmalloc()/kfree() suffice? IMO the tradeoff (compared to chaining
with its reduction in ring size, and handling ood) is positive.
I'll try a patch based on the next patchset.
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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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