[Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 14/20] xen/grant-table: Make it running on 64KB granularity

Stefano Stabellini stefano.stabellini at eu.citrix.com
Fri Jul 17 06:37:38 PDT 2015


On Thu, 16 Jul 2015, Julien Grall wrote:
> Hi Stefano,
> 
> On 16/07/2015 16:47, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
>  >> diff --git a/drivers/xen/grant-table.c b/drivers/xen/grant-table.c
> > > index 3679293..0a1f903 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/xen/grant-table.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/xen/grant-table.c
> > 
> > The arm part is fine, but aren't you missing the change to RPP and SPP?
> 
> SPP has been removed by commit 548f7c94759ac58d4744ef2663e2a66a106e21c5 as it
> was unused.
> 
> For RPP, it's used internally so there is no need to switch to XEN_PAGE_SIZE.
> Otherwise we will waste 60KB for each internal page allocated (see
> gnttab_init).

I see now that RPP is specifically for internal data structures in
grant-table.c and it is used consistently.

Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini at eu.citrix.com>



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