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

[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 the p2m tree walk is performance critical.
> >
> > By using a linear virtual mapped p2m list accesses to p2m elements
> > can be sped up while even simplifying code. To achieve this goal
> > some p2m related initializations have to be performed later in the
> > boot process, as the final p2m list can be set up only after basic
> > memory management functions are available.
>
> What impact does this have on 32-bit guests which don't have huge amount
> of virtual address space?
>
> I think a 32-bit guest could have up to 64 GiB of PFNs, which would
> require a 128 MiB p2m array, which is too large?

It is 64 MB (one entry on 32 bit is 32 bits :-) ).

With a m2p array of only 16 MB size I doubt a 32 bit guest can be larger
than 16 GB, or am I wrong here?


Juergen
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