RE: [Xen-devel] Design question for PV superpage support

[Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Dan Magenheimer wrote:
> > BTW, thinking ahead to ballooning with 2MB pages, are we prepared
> > to assume that a relinquished 2MB page can't be fragmented?
> > While this may be appealing for systems where nearly all
> > guests are using 2MB pages, systems where the 2MB guest is
> > an odd duck might suffer substantially by making that
> > assumption.
> 
> Well, I still think that 4k pages are a ludicrously tiny unit 
> of memory 
> for Xen to be dealing with, and it shouldn't bother to get out of bed 
> for less than 2M.  If we treat 4k pages as the special case 
> then keeping 
> the Xen heap unfragmented at the 2M level should be fairly easy, no?

Probably true, though I suspect this is harder than it sounds.

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