>>> On 20.02.19 at 18:08, <wei.l...@citrix.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 01:09:56PM +0000, Wei Liu wrote: > [...] >> I think under-allocate-then-map looks plausible. xmalloc will need >> to allocate pages, put them into an array and call __vmap on that array >> directly. > > The biggest issue with this approach is that we now need an array of > 1UL<<MAX_ORDER to accommodate mfns. Back of envelope calculation: on x86 > this is going to be (1UL<<20)*8 bytes long. This is not feasible.
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