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Message-ID: <48D1486F.7060506@goop.org>
Date:	Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:11:59 -0700
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Chris Lalancette <clalance@...hat.com>
CC:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	"xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com" <xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND]: Expand Xen blkfront for > 16 xvd

Chris Lalancette wrote:
> Until recently, the maximum number of xvd block devices you could attach to
> a Xen domU was 16.  This limitation turned out to be problematic for some users,
> so it was expanded to handle a much larger number of disks.  However, this
> requires a couple of changes in the way that blkfront scans for disks.  This
> functionality is already present in the Xen linux-2.6.18-xen.hg tree; the
> attached patch adds this functionality to the mainline xen-blkfront
> implementation.  I successfully tested it on a 2.6.25 tree, and build tested it
> on 2.6.27-rc3.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Lalancette <clalance@...hat.com>
> Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
>   

Jens, do you have this one already?

Thanks,
    J
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