Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 2/2] x86/dom0: improve paging memory usage calculations

[Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 12:14:53PM +0100, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 03:57:41AM -0700, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > >>> On 12.12.18 at 11:16, <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > There are also further issues that I wanted to discuss in a separate
> > > thread, what about foreign mappings? Dom0 will likely map a non
> > > trivial amount of grants and foreign mappings, which will also require
> > > p2m/IOMMU page table entries.
> > 
> > Hmm, good point. Then again this is a runtime requirement,
> > whereas here we want to get the boot time estimate right. At
> > runtime lack of memory for P2M tables will simply result in
> > -ENOMEM.
> 
> But Xen runtime memory is also tied to the boot estimates if there's
> no dom0_mem parameter specified on the command line. I would expect
                                                         ^ wouldn't
> Dom0 to balloon down memory when it attempts to map BARs, even at
> runtime.

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