Re: [Xen-devel] do_grant_table_op()'s input array size limitation

[Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 02/07/2009 08:23, "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Am I right in understanding that the restriction on 512 entries to be passed
> in is solely to cap the time that's being spent in the hypervisor without
> being
> able to service softirq requests as well as while the domain lock is being
> held?
> If that's the case, eliminating that restriction could be fairly strait
> forward by
> putting the majority of the function body in a loop or, perhaps even better,
> calling hypercall_preempt_check() every so many entries and using the
> continuation mechanism.

Yes, true.

 -- Keir



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