Re: [Xen-devel] virtual frame_table?

[Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 07:30 +0100, Keir Fraser wrote:
> On 26/08/2009 22:20, "Alex Williamson" <alex.williamson@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On ia64 we had a virtual frame_table to allow for better handling of
> > sparse memory configs.  Has x86 considered anything similar?  I see that
> > init_frametable() is currently allocating 32bytes per page for
> > everything up to max_page.  This can consume a pretty significant chunk
> > of memory if nodes are discontiguous.  Anyone motivated to fix it?
> 
> Easily fixed if there's a reason to. Not really many x86 systems have
> discontiguous memory.

Right, but commodity systems are definitely getting bigger quickly, and
it's only a matter of time.  I'll toss in my vote that the frame_table
should be optimized sooner rather than later.  I might even be able to
test it on a system that's wasting more memory than we'd like there.
Thanks,

Alex


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