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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 3/3] tools: introduce parameter max_wp_ram_ranges.





On 1/27/2016 10:32 PM, Jan Beulich wrote:
On 27.01.16 at 15:13, <yu.c.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
About the default value:
    You are right. :) For XenGT, MAX_NR_IO_RANGES may only work under
limited conditions. Having it default to zero means XenGT users must
manually configure this option. Since we have plans to push other XenGT
tool stack parameters(including a GVT-g flag), how about we set this
max_wp_ram_ranges to a default one when GVT-g flag is detected, and
till then, max_wp_ram_ranges is supposed to be configured explicitly for
XenGT?

Sounds reasonable, and in line with what iirc was discussed on
the tool stack side.


Great, and thanks.

About the truncation issue:
    I do not quite follow. Will this hurt if the value configured does
not exceed 4G? What about a type cast?

A typecast would not alter behavior in any way. And of course
a problem only arises if the value was above 4 billion. You either
need to refuse such values while the attempt is made to set it.
or you need to deal with the full range of possible values. Likely
the former is the better (and I wonder whether the upper
bound shouldn't be forced even lower than 4 billion).


Oh, I see. A check with the upper bound sounds better. Using 4G as the
upper bound is a little conservative, but I do not have any better
criteria right now. :)

Jan



Thanks
Yu

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