Re: [PATCH] x86-64: improve e820_search_gap()

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Date: Fri Mar 13 2009 - 13:37:33 EST


Jan Beulich wrote:
Blindly putting the gap close after max_pfn might be fine for native
(though even there I'm uncertain regarding memory hotplug), but will
certainly present a problem on Xen. And properly searching for a gap
above 4Gb shouldn't hurt native.

What Xen-related issue are you thinking of?

When booting dom0 I reashape the guest memory to match the host E820 map, and for domU my plan is to leave a hole at 3-4GB for pci passthrough resources.

J
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