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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 2/2] xen/setup: Remap Xen Identity Mapped RAM
On 08/01/14 08:56, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> On 08/01/2014 11:52 AM, Matt Wilson wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 03:52:28PM +0100, David Vrabel wrote:
>>> On 31/07/14 18:43, David Vrabel wrote:
>>>> On 20/07/14 01:01, Matt Rushton wrote:
>>>>> Instead of ballooning up and down dom0 memory this remaps the
>>>>> existing mfns
>>>>> that were replaced by the identity map. The reason for this is
>>>>> that the
>>>>> existing implementation ballooned memory up and and down which
>>>>> caused dom0
>>>>> to have discontiguous pages. In some cases this resulted in the
>>>>> use of bounce
>>>>> buffers which reduced network I/O performance significantly. This
>>>>> change will
>>>>> honor the existing order of the pages with the exception of some
>>>>> boundary
>>>>> conditions.
>>>>>
>>>>> To do this we need to update both the Linux p2m table and the Xen
>>>>> m2p table.
>>>>> Particular care must be taken when updating the p2m table since
>>>>> it's important
>>>>> to limit table memory consumption and reuse the existing leaf
>>>>> pages which get
>>>>> freed when an entire leaf page is set to the identity map. To
>>>>> implement this,
>>>>> mapping updates are grouped into blocks with table entries getting
>>>>> cached
>>>>> temporarily and then released.
>>>>>
>>>>> On my test system before:
>>>>> Total pages: 2105014
>>>>> Total contiguous: 1640635
>>>>>
>>>>> After:
>>>>> Total pages: 2105014
>>>>> Total contiguous: 2098904
>>>> Applied to devel/for-linus-3.17
>>> Unfortunately, this produces too many WARNINGs on some boxes or
>>> with certain configurations.
>> Hi David,
>>
>> Do you have more information about the systems or configurations that
>> showed a problem?
>>
>
>
> This appears to be happening on 32-bit dom0.
>
> -boris

I just pushed a v3 version of the patch set which should fix the issue.
There was casting issue that would affect 32-bit builds.


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