Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC v2] x86/p2m: use large pages for MMIO mappings

2015-09-24 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 23.09.15 at 18:22, wrote: > On 09/22/2015 01:56 PM, Jan Beulich wrote: >> When mapping large BARs (e.g. the frame buffer of a graphics card) the >> overhead of establishing such mappings using only 4k pages has, >> particularly after the XSA-125 fix, become unacceptable. Alter the >> XEN_DO

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC v2] x86/p2m: use large pages for MMIO mappings

2015-09-23 Thread George Dunlap
On 09/22/2015 01:56 PM, Jan Beulich wrote: > When mapping large BARs (e.g. the frame buffer of a graphics card) the > overhead of establishing such mappings using only 4k pages has, > particularly after the XSA-125 fix, become unacceptable. Alter the > XEN_DOMCTL_memory_mapping semantics once again

[Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC v2] x86/p2m: use large pages for MMIO mappings

2015-09-22 Thread Jan Beulich
When mapping large BARs (e.g. the frame buffer of a graphics card) the overhead of establishing such mappings using only 4k pages has, particularly after the XSA-125 fix, become unacceptable. Alter the XEN_DOMCTL_memory_mapping semantics once again, so that there's no longer a fixed amount of guest