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RE: [PATCH for-4.17 1/2] docs: Document the minimal requirement of static heap


  • To: Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@xxxxxxx>
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  • Thread-topic: [PATCH for-4.17 1/2] docs: Document the minimal requirement of static heap

Hi Julien,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH for-4.17 1/2] docs: Document the minimal requirement
> of static heap
> >>> Is this formula somehow make sense to you? I think we need to have a
> >>> rough estimation of the last part (boot time allocation) though.
> >>
> >> That's going to be hard. It will vary depending on your system and this
> >> could change in the future as we add more features. For instance, I
> >> expect the PCI passthrough will need some memory to keep track of all
> >> the devices.
> >>
> >> I am worry the formula will become complex. Ideally we need to have a
> >> very simple formula. If that's not possible, then we need to provide a
> >> way for the user to estimate it at runtime (like what I suggested before).
> >
> > I agree, I think the simple formula can only be achieved is we have an
> > estimation of the worst case scenario of those scattered memory usages.
> > I remember I once had a try so let me try to find the results back that 
> > time...
> >
> > I am also very interested in the method that you proposed to provide a
> > mechanism for users to get the system memory allocation at runtime. But
> > IIUC this needs some work in another series. Could you please confirm if I
> > am understanding correctly? Or probably Xen has some mechanisms that
> > I am likely unaware? Thanks!
> 
> It will depend the way you account memory statically allocated to
> domains in Xen.
> 
> We already provide the total amount of memory in the system and how
> much
> is free. The values can be retrieved using ``xl info``.
> 
>   * When not allocated, is this considered free or used?
>   * Are they included in the total memory?
> 
> If the answer is no for both (possibly just one), then we will need to
> provide extra hypercalls to expose the size of the xenheap and how much
> is free.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I will add a follow-up series for this
work. Before we have this mechanism, I think the patch 2/2 should be
dropped.

Kind regards,
Henry


> 
> Cheers,
> 
> --
> Julien Grall

 


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