linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86: ioremap: fix wrong physical address handling

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Date:	Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:33:08 -0700
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>
CC:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@...fujitsu.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>, tglx@...utronix.de,
	mingo@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, macro@...ux-mips.org,
	kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com, eike-kernel@...tec.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86: ioremap: fix wrong physical address handling

On 07/08/2010 09:24 PM, Simon Horman wrote:
>> I think it would be a pretty large change.  From the Xen's perspective,
>> any machine even approximately approaching the 2^44 limit will be
>> capable of running Xen guests in hvm mode, so PV isn't really a concern.
>>     
> Hi Jeremy,
>
> Is the implication of that statement that HVM is preferred where
> supported by HW?
>   

I wouldn't go that far; the PV vs HVM choice is pretty complex, and
depends on what your workload is and what hardware you have available. 
All I meant was what I said: that if you're running on a machine with a
large amount of memory, then you should run your 32-bit domains as HVM
rather than PV.  Though Xen could easily keep domains limited to memory
that they can actually use (it already does this, in fact).

    J
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