Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH V2 2/3] xen: eliminate scalability issues from initrd handling

2014-09-17 Thread Juergen Gross
On 09/17/2014 03:45 PM, David Vrabel wrote: On 17/09/14 05:12, Juergen Gross wrote: Size restrictions native kernels wouldn't have resulted from the initrd getting mapped into the initial mapping. The kernel doesn't really need the initrd to be mapped, so use infrastructure available in Xen to a

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH V2 2/3] xen: eliminate scalability issues from initrd handling

2014-09-17 Thread David Vrabel
On 17/09/14 05:12, Juergen Gross wrote: > Size restrictions native kernels wouldn't have resulted from the initrd > getting mapped into the initial mapping. The kernel doesn't really need > the initrd to be mapped, so use infrastructure available in Xen to avoid > the mapping and hence the restrict

[PATCH V2 2/3] xen: eliminate scalability issues from initrd handling

2014-09-16 Thread Juergen Gross
Size restrictions native kernels wouldn't have resulted from the initrd getting mapped into the initial mapping. The kernel doesn't really need the initrd to be mapped, so use infrastructure available in Xen to avoid the mapping and hence the restriction. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross --- arch/x8