Re: [Xen-devel] Proposed new "memory capacity claim" hypercall/feature

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 08.11.12 at 11:50, Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 08/11/2012 09:47, "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> The only thing that indeed is - on non-preemptible kernels - done
>> only on exit to user mode is the eventual entering of the scheduler.
> 
> That alone may still be an argument for restricting the batch size from the
> toolstack?

Yes, this clearly prohibits unlimited batches. But not being able to
schedule should be less restrictive than not being able to run
softirqs, so I'd still put under question whether the limit shouldn't
be bumped.

Jan


_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel