[Xen-devel] Re: non-zero order allocations in shadow code may prevent live migration

[Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:19 +0100 on 27 Sep (1190895561), Jan Beulich wrote:
> So then I'll go ahead with implementing the described change (I'm actually
> intending to have shadow_prealloc() take not just an order, but also a count
> parameter - in a number of places it is being called with SHADOW_MAX_ORDER
> for no reason other than wanting 3 or 4 single pages).

shadow_prealloc could just as easily take no arguments and always free
four pages in the highest order that's in use.  There's no real benefit
from fine-tuning it as the operations that free shadow memory operate in
much bigger increments anyway.

Cheers,

Tim.

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